Gedichte auf Englisch (Seite 14)

through your eyes

Sometimes you can't feel
the joy you had before
because suffering steal
it and shut the door

It's not true
who I am through your eyes
and you have no clue
how many times she dies

Dying is not a one last case
It's called life sometimes
sometimes you're in a horrible place
and your spirit experience crimes

you won't ever see the truth
and I guess it's the best for me and you
It's like loosing a tooth
it hurts but you're going through

I need to let go and move on
but everything feels so big
and I'm so down
and I'm so, so far away

I want to live through my eyes
but It's so hard

SHE

And she was lost
She didn’t know what she felt anymore
She was both happy and sad at the same time
She would never tell how she felt
She would stay quiet and keep it to herself
She had lost so much and gained so little
She would never feel good enough for anyone

Not even for herself

She would laugh and she would smile
But She knew
She was living a lie
Behind her smile
She held a broken heart
She would forgive over and over again
Just because
She was afraid to lose someone who was never hers

Intimate Desperation

All the time I have been thinking
of the life I've had so far.
And the pictures of my life
keep pouring into my consciousness
to be drowned in the dark of my conscience.
This thought renders me helpless -
I don't know what to do.
And all the thoughts keep clinging to my mind
giving way to options of all kind.
And this renders me helpless.
I don't know what to do.

Heinrich Baumgarten

move on

walking around and not knowing where
you're gonna stop and take a break
Take a break
and breathe in the fresh air

He has hurt me in a way
no one ever could
Whenever I hear your voice I shake
I don't want that and I know I should

I know I should run away and never look back
but if you never really felt safe
it's a lack
of trust

Surplus Ape

Walking a road of cobblestone,
carefully mind your step.
Matching ends from skin to bone:
caught in a spider's web.
Have you got the slightest notion
of what makes people tick?
Don't trust in anyone's emotion;
the wall grows higher brick by brick.

Where ambition is there is no space
for reason, love or joy.
Like cobblestone, like brick your face
will harden, man or boy.
Could an earthquake smash to pieces
all that culture brought about -
might the earth devour our species?
No more mankind? Crying out loud!

Oh April's Fools, you brainy apes!
What have you been doing so far?
Too high, you thought, God grew the grapes?
Our sun's just the nearest star.
Have you ever thought of thinking?
Have you finally filled your purse?
Maybe there are worthy beings
somewhere in the universe...

Heinrich Baumgarten, May 1984

Gedichte auf Englisch - Seite 14

through your eyes

SHE

Intimate Desperation

move on

Surplus Ape