Schlechter Rat

Vielleicht wars doch Irrsinn

Das wegen sowas zu vermeinen

Was hättest du sonst tun können

Außer es offenbar zu verneinen

Deswegen wars auch dämlich

Das alles bloßzulegen

Letztendlich hats mir nichts gebracht

Und dir ein Hemmnis meinetwegen

Fumbling through the Grey

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Musical Accompaniment:

Mat Kearney - Ships in the Night

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Giant iron banded wheels

Rolling over sand and fields

Just like a tire's profile

We touch the Earth but a short while

Back in the Bardo we complete the revolution

To atone for our sins and search for a solution

Reach the center of our wheels

Enlightenment and ideals

I was once your teacher and you my wayward student

I crossed the world and found you but you remain imprudent

Only a quarter of this life to get here thank instinct and blind fate

Yet I arrived, to my dismay, once again just somewhat late

You slight my words anew and barrel forth through life

As were it the only one and somehow free of strife

Our wheels are bound by axel; we need each other to make it through

Otherwise we're just rolling on and achieving nothing new

Please forget this game you play

Life only remains the same that way

We've got some real work to do

Together, me and you

 

Epiphany

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Musical Accompaniment:

Roxy Music - If there is Something

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A million miles across the surface of the sun
Lead me to an understanding I wasn't prepared for
How unlikely it is that we're here together
Of all the possibilities
Like alien cultures
Come to fruition near enough in time and space
Contact is possible
A voice cries out into the infinite void
And is answered

By the sweetest melody ever imaginable

Haikus (I)

I have been set free

Released from imprisonment

Of my own design

Are these the hard times

Why do I feel so alive

When will this subside

Things are what they are

We need to stop reading them

As something they aren't

Ebbe und Verzicht

Jens liebt Alis Schwesterchen

Sie ihn aber nicht

Up on Cold Mountain

I threw ice from the apex

Like a vengeful god

Jāti

I sold my voice for another chance, a shot at something new

Everything looked great upon first glance but eventually fell through

What at first made me unique became a problem over time

Without a tongue to speak, my life began to unravel and unwind

For now I’m dancing aerials across this foreign sky

In attempt convey just how I feel from my body to your eye

Our souls are tightly bound from so many lives successful

That was enough to find you here but without my voice the rest’s proved stressful

I need you to wake up and remember your lives past

We must hold tight this time that we remain together when recast