dark wooden walls
solitude
deep in the woods
naked flower
there in the only corner brightened by the
memory of a morning sun -
steam
coffee on the sidetable
by the opened door
the forest air flowing in

Paint with words.

I play, I sing
Deep in the night
Sometimes I write
But out of your sight

I draw, I paint
Gloriously silent
Sometimes I listen
Well that's my only talent

He may have been labelled 'God'
But in our most secret hollow
He's not much more than a whisper

I have to say
I'm afraid that
You may have been returned to God
So you remain silent at the break of the day
Whereas here, your echo lingers on

There is nothing,
no, there's nothing quite alike the rain at night,
maybe a gaze into the stranger's window,
mouthing 'Hello'
along with a nod in sight,
and the stars up there nodding in agreement,
yet nothing like this rain tonight.

Padněme k zemi před tím velkým světem
Protože nikdo z nás ať řekne cokoliv
Nebude silnější

My všichni tady jsme mrtví
I ty jsi mrtev
Pohřben ve vlastních verších
Které tě přerůstají
A smrtí se pak navrátíme životu -

Padněme k zemi před tím velkým světem
Protože nikdo z nás ať se stane čímkoliv
Nebude větší

Didn't write this one, but its spirit cannot be undone

*She reads poetry in her pajamas
And laughs when there is no joke
She runs away from the rain
And dances in cigarette smoke

Pictures never capture
The whisps of silver hair
Surrounding her face
And following her everywhere

She never dreams when she sleeps
Only when she's holding *****
She drives around in the prairie hills
With a childish smile
After all, what has she got to lose?

Only photographs
         In your room
                 Know you're a liar.*
                Take all of them
        And keep them
Wherever you go.

Mothers and fathers
Were you giving life
As you give a penny
To a homeless tonight?

I know it's now too late
But I must get it right,
Was one life so necessary
For this world at fight?

"You told me to say it aloud
Even though I was not seeing bright,
But Hey, you inside me,
Are you still alive?"

I'm all alone here
But outside seem not to be so warm
Is that what you say?
Is that why I never was born?

"I'm glad I do not fear
'cause You're on the other side
But Hey, you inside me,
Are you still alive?"

The wind and the ground
Isn't that kind I was made for
O' poor mother, don't fool yourself
'cause that is why I never was born.

Mothers and fathers
Do not give a life
As you gave a penny
To a homeless that night.

I know it's now too late
But you must get it right,
One life was not so necessary
For this world at fight.

Through all these times
There's a lot I've done and
A lot I've learned
But for sure I know
You did nothing wrong
If you let somebody be happy
Right where he's able to,
Right where he belongs.

Now through all these songs
In here, there's a lot I've loved
A lot I've owed
But for sure I know
You should have built a wall
The songs they are
Like a mirror themselves
*Like a mirror of their own.

She sat beside me and turned to me
Said there should be one day
A place for thee
House full of secrets and lovely books
Wine spread all around
Might have an artsy looks
I listened quietly, hung on each her word
Sparks came to my eyes
"I wish I knew it would,"

I leaned on my back
And went on myself -
Where I would sing every night
To my beloved old man
To make him sigh
For how long and touching
Was our life
In the meantime split into both
But then once a lifetime
United though

If you’re lucky enough,
You'll get older
Through life
You'll scent
What people
Are in need of
And you'll be offering
Before being asked.

Despite the pain in your heart
Because of the girl you've never found
And the fact that after years of concentrated
Spiritual effort
You haven't managed to reach
The enlightenment,
There will the Pleasant Glimpse be raised
Along from your uncertain hopes and intentions.

Oh, and if I didn't mention it,
I'll leave you lonely

Netoužil pozorovat okolní svět,
Chtěl projít a třeba jen konec
Se dovědět.

Kosti živých mrtvých překračuje s neláskou,
Dech se mu zrychluje
S rostoucí otázkou.

Kousek nebe spadnul ti do cesty
A pokud pro nic jiného,
Tak jen proto si jej važ,

Že ze skromnosti se nelze vypsat
Pokud jste znaveni čtením o cizích životech
Vyčtěte z nich ten váš.

You said you ain't got nothing
Just to put your hands on
No rhyme, no song to sing,
Nor place to hide or hut to build,
Have no sacrifice nor strength to feel,
And though you tried so bad
I know It's been so hard to tell
That you're almost gone
That you're hardly standing straight.

You said you surely don't need
Any more time for yourself to bleed
And I heard you spent hours
Sittin' on the shore,
You stood back up with words
That the last book you wrote
Is almost done.

Zastav se srdce
pokud mám jen díky tobě jít
a na vlastní rakev tak klinem přispět
prestaň bít
protože nemohu za tebou dál
a nemohu víc na smrt myslet.

I fell in the river
Of your tears
As I wasn't looking
Just for a little while

You did not need me and anyway, who else did

If I'm wrong then world's got a thing to dismiss

How much I die if I feel for everything

And when I'm right it still ain't nobody's lover's business

You know,
World is full of
Broken people & broken thoughts,
And though everything hurts
And it might be worse,

They're all somewhere there
On this vast night's course
Any day now, you'll admit
The truth has yellow eyes,
Even if the heart's what hurts the most.

Though back then
We all could swore
We couldn't get any more

Let's put it this way:
Someone came just to break a heart
But that's not what I came here for.

I'm sick of this
I can't cry anymore
I can't live
I won't die

Last night
I saw a star fallin' down
But I ain't sure if I've seen it at all

Last night
I was walking down beneath the trees
But I ain't sure if I was walking at all

Last night
I saw the reflection of my most secret dream
But I ain't too sure if it was my dream at all

Last night
I sat in the park, people passin' by
But I ain't sure if they were people at all.

I'd rather set you free
to see you in the street
one day happily
but these chains've been
kept just too long
close to the heart of thee
How guilty am I
not to set you free?

I should have let you know
this world's never again
going to be so quiet,
even though
standing on the mountain top
I'd do anything
just to deny it
and the fact that the rivers flow
How guilty am I
not to let you know?

One day I might feel you grow
you, but an innocent dream
led by a sinful soul
How guilty am I
not to grow cold?

Those who sleep with angels
Could never reach the depth of you,
'cause when you've got nothing to care about,
You've got no one to talk to

Those who stand alone straight
Can't never stand behind
'cause the shadows would spread over
Blinding the stars above that shine

Tyhle básně se tak staly po čase vskutku božstvím -
Patřily do mimolidského světa, ale do lidského světa zasahovaly,
Zauzlovaly jeho příběhy, intrikovaly a prozrazovaly utajované.

And then one day
You asked me what happened with
All the poems of mine
And I said they're all gone
With those so many reasons
For writing them

They're gone with myself

But I grabbed a sheet and
Wrote down the new ones
Instead of them poems
But something inside of them
Has been rapidly changed
With those so many reasons
For writing them

They've been changed.

"Can you feel
Occasionally
My beat in your temper?"

-Please let her
stay quiet
I could not stand
any answer-

"But why you seem
So sad every time
Something beautiful happens"

-He knows the reason
So well
And I know it too-

"For the dizzy height
We're becoming part of
I feel so bad"

-It should be that some things
Wouldn't ever be allowed
To be said aloud-

-And longest silence-

"Yesterday I heard
The most cozy song
That I'm sure you'd love"

-And I still
feel it-

"Sing it to me
How did it sound?"*

-I know every word's got
its true meaning
when spoken for a second time-

And this is why
These dialogues
Cannot be read twice
For they'd get too emotional.