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I met a butterfly
On my way to Jötunheim
With a hammer in my heart

I met a butterfly
With luminous wings
That stopped for a while
As in the deepest time of night
When even birds are quiet
While whisper lets out a lie

It descended upon my horse’s ear
Blue and green on chestnut hair
Our pace was unrelenting
And also weary from the err
Souls heavily pushing
this meaty cart
I met a butterfly
On my way to Jötunheim
With a hammer in my heart

What is to think of this life
Caught between the night and day
When even seer sees only partly and
Many times different as same
A Hero famous for a thousand years
Or a beggar without a name
From our souls blooms
Like a flower a poisonous dart
I met a butterfly
On my way to Jötunheim
With a hammer in my heart

And yet I think that in a way
‘Tis more real than these hands
That clutch the oars

The moment ended
And the wings spread to depart
To continue in their blind
Pursuit to cheat the death
This delicate unlearnable art
I met a butterfly
On my way to Jötunheim
With a hammer in my heart
Choice and compassion-
Just those two sum up a man.
And evil originates only
From a desire
To be loved.
Thank you John Steinbeck
if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the
way. this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or
4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the
worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the
gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight
there is.
in my bag
and i find you
at the surface of it all
a 15 minute visual
album of first love
you live in the
back of my
head
taking solace in
the quiet corners of
me

///

sticking to you in
the nighttime
you break down
my natural composition
of chaos and good intentions
One circle composes life
But what is inside or on its edges
Is a completely new sensation-
that is the dichotomy of it all;
General stillness of everything
And ever changing situation
Always in motion
Always something or someone else
Prison of freedom

So many paths walked by others
Yet one path of life always short of
Right answers, if there even are any

What others think right
Only necessary to survive
Where some seem to thrive
Is to us a loosing fight
Everything being only endless
River of confusion and doubt

Edges are still nowhere to be seen;
Only in wild hallucinations they appear
To us, the end of ourselves-
There we are dead until we
Put a foot on that place
On that state of mind

Partly as animals we only live
Unable to comprehend why
Partly as humans we try to find
A reason
However, blinded by the notion
Of purpose we forget to ask
The simplest of questions-
Is there any final destination
For this incomprehensible life?

And if the answer is negative
There is nothing to be found.

Maybe that is the case
And our existence bounds us
To find purpose of our own:
to melt the general life
In the seas of originality,
To widen our edges,
To deepen our insides,
To increase our separation,
Embrace the Solitude
Of our souls
(So the humility could bloom)
To become truly ourselves
And not just the generals.

Only memory is pretty
What is left is only ash
Eternal darkness
Burning sawdust...
Resurrection of the mind
A failed life
and a cheek-pinch
are quite alike,
they both hurt.
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