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Zywa Oct 2023
The cold lies thick
over the world like dust
as if no one has been
there for a long time

and I have been
forgotten or overlooked
left behind as if I couldn't
be taken with them

No one with whom I can
share what I feel, the cold
since you've been gone, the cold
since I've been home alone

No one
to tell that
I have lost you
my dear darling

All alone
No one
who sees, who knows
that I miss you
Song "The Frost" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
Zywa Oct 2023
Once you falter, you

keep doing so, in circles --


that will get smaller.
Novel "De eeuwige jachtvelden" (1995, "The happy hunting grounds", 1999 Nanne Tepper), letter from Lisa to Victor (Third book, "Old Houses July 1990")

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Oct 2023
Are you an angel, am I a dog?
Are you from heaven and I from hell?
Or are you a dog, my dog?
And will we go to hell together?

Where are you taking me?
Where am I taking you?
Why do you want to love me?
What can I ever give you?

The more you love me
the more I have to
betray your love, tear it apart
like a dog at the gate

The more you believe in me, the more
I'll bite back until your love is dead
at the gates of heaven
or the gates of hell
Song "I'm Your Man" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
Zywa Oct 2023
The future eats me,


which I don't mind, as long as --



I feel the chewing.
Novel "De eeuwige jachtvelden" (1995, "The happy hunting grounds", 1999 Nanne Tepper), Fourth book

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Oct 2023
At home, no clothes on
brushing my hair
putting on makeup
laughing in the mirror

Toasting myself:
I love me
after you

At home, no clothes on
the curtains open
free, free in sight
of the dark

In the night I am free
in the night I love me
after you

Let the streets see me
let the night see me
I'm not going to hide
after you

Everyone may see me
I love me
after you
Song "I Love Me After You" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
Zywa Oct 2023
I crawled, I stood up,


grandpa only nodded: yes --



that's how one grows up.
Novel "De eeuwige jachtvelden" (1995, "The happy hunting grounds", 1999 Nanne Tepper), letter from Victor to Lisa, aboot the Manager after his death (Third book, "Paris August 1990")

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Oct 2023
My tent has a hole
at the top, that's the moon
which always shines
Before me, after me

Moon, you have room, right?
Tell me, do you have a place
for my heart?
Then, I'll come

to you
when I die, I will
to let my love shine
together with you

..One day I'll have to leave
..everything behind
..and none of it is mine
..except my love
..which is mine, all mine

for my loved one here on earth
That's why I hope
I can shine on him
with you later

..Nothing is mine
..except my love
..which is mine
..all mine
..all mine
Song "My Love Mine All Mine" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
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