Thoughts

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I haven't posted anything in a long time...I know!
Some people have been complaining about that, which means I actually must have some readers ;-)))

Anyway, I was away: first for real..in Ireland and then away in my head and in my heart, looking for explanations I still haven't found yet...for reasons I did not find, but, as usual, I found rhyme or rhythm or verse or words....so I guess that is what I will share with whoever cares to read...


P.S.: I guess all this is about love, still...


Still

I wake with you on my mind
every day
why that is is beyond
my comprehenssion
I guess matters of
the heart cannot be solved
by the grey matter
in my skull


Outside the limits

I really wanted to go there.
Do you remember how I
Said drive, don’t stop!
I want to see what is
Outside the limits,
What lies behind what we
Can actually see from where
We already are, I wanted to
Explore it all, I wanted each
Pixel to burn my retina, to scar it with memories.
Every single bit of sky seemed to call
On me not to stop, the clouds in
your eyes did the same, they asked me
If I was brave enough, if I was serious,
If I would dare to stay and roam beyond the
Limits of your city, of your mind, of your heart.


Tulsa Airport, Real Time

“I like your hair” he said
As if I had just come back
From the beautician on
Any given Saturday as if
I had just dumped the shopping
As if I had just shouted “baby, I am home”
He told me about how the dog
Had eaten the sugar and about
The mess on the carpet and the weather
Little things, you know, things that matter
We hugged and went outside for a smoke
Stood there as if we were meant to be as if we
Had a past a present and a future


Icarus, female

I came too close to something
I could not fully grasp
With singed wings I toppled
From skies that looked full of promise
I must have missed the point when blue turned black
Now my scorched heart reminds me every day
That it is presumptuous to kiss the sun


copyright all poems ulrike gerbig 2006