Alice V

I’m the one who called you Alice
right before our high hopes shared the storm,
I gave you a name to remember
when you crossed from one world to the other –
and off the rabbit hole she went…

Dancing through the looking glass
you’ve left red ribbon riddles for the hunters
and Alice dearest is sipping on the tea,
it never ceased to be a world of wonders
but don’t forget the name I gave to you…

These hands caressed your face
seeking understanding in the purple seas
yet blinded by a wonder I ignored to see,
the road was paved on ashes
and you Alice, are burning far from me…

Wif

What if,
what if my words are coming out,
to summon monsters from a child
if each of roads I take splits after a while
and no book wants to stay forever on the bookshelf that I choose?

Let me share the starry mornings after blacking out the night
having coffee in the garden on a swing under the grapes,
love builds pouring wine onto your lower lips
and in confession kneeling to the priest,
darling, don’t forget to kiss….

Do not sip, open up and have this drink
we’ll be crying playing bands from ’96,
all I cared for leave in Tromsø hiking daily in the woods
long have rusted our dreams on a German royal bridge
and in days my nights be spilling seeking for a better self…

What if each of steps this stairway asks be taken brings one closer to the Sun
and so my wings are inked in blood and not glued feathers on
for once to taste the ale with Muninn
planted seeds to grow an army;
what if I must write this story with the ashes of the old?

Soldier

Looking back inside me now
there is only glitter scattered on a mirror,
I’m supposed to be a fighter in the front-line
all I can hear is fear
this enemy walks in the shadows as it strikes through the day,
we are prey…

I am hiding up in the sky,
two days to go before the great fall
it is us that they have
the slayers of orcs, the bringers of hope,
sleep while you can, gather your strength
sand runs fast and sand runs down…

A scent of burning

The scalpel landed on the table with a metallic clack. There was an opening of not more than five centimeters through which a yellowish crumble-like pudding was trying to force its way out. Then the steampunk wand started buzzing for the second time and the room was filled with a scent of burning fat.

” He pushes again! Make him sleep Bob. I can’t work like this!”

…but don’t fake those smiles darling
give me something green and breezy
one last beer before the play gets rolling,
you were selling tickets for the numbers
yet this time I do my dance alone
wheels burning on remembrance road…

Continue reading

Droplet in a bucket

That’s how it all started. The writing, the songs, visions, books read in the dead of the night, red wine, the three years of smoking slims, the love, the orgies, the pain, Italian coffee…with a drop that fell in an ocean and sent ripples across the universe. Across my universe. And looking back now, to all that it was all that could have been, I feel empty, pointless, directionless. All lost faster that the tick of that fossil of a watch I still own somewhere on a shelf back in France…

So listen here sonny, that guy is also a fraud. Don’t believe everything he is telling you. I see a bright future for you. But stay away from him and his doings. There are stories they tell about his kind. Stay away…

Continue reading

Testament (II)

In the night that came around
just before the demons fed on dreams unaccomplished,
I have seen the stars,
one needs darkness for the light to show
and nothingness makes place for everything to happen
when hope is in the trade time’s a moment repeating on itself…

I am in the present written from a book that’s spared
hired as a preacher selling truths,
I scar inside and change the fate of those who look
ask me for a question that may open minds,
for silence rides a racing horse that wins
and grass grows where only dust remains –

The last scribe hunts words shaped in coal
an understanding offered to an altar in the desert,
why push forward when the heart is heavy
in the total absence of ideas
kneel before the center of existence
and cry a prayer as a sentence burnt in stone…

The passage

I have met her in a dream
where the nights refuse to stay
and I am driving to the mountains left side from the sea,
have a calling for the heights
and got a house to build,
my two arms digging making place for roots to fit –
oaks to grow up in our garden
for our kids to play;
showed your soul through opened rib-cage at occasions
and the bleeding pulled your madness to the surface,
in the battle to exist
you did misspell the road to glory…

I have met myself through life
an old men always feeling younger,
I do not dream but did imagine
all the terrors locked in bottles of their own,
it took some time to learn the lessons
took a lifetime to remember words of wisdom written in the clay,
my second mother left a testament for loving
words were few but burnt in deep,
and did I listen?
I recall the war as I do the taking my goodbyes
hoping that beyond the havens she is very much alive…

I have met my army marching
their feet naked and the hands up in the air,
counting stars when nothing’s left to trust
they slide one after the other in the gutter,
I loved her once, I’ve got a photograph misplaced somewhere
but nothing could have guessed the silence to become,
when the grass turned greener everywhere
while my backyard covered with a yellow scent,
the Doctor wrote me medication
and I fell asleep once more,
dreaming of a calling for redemption,
dreaming of a different world…

Wildflower

I threw the dice before last night,
in the fortune cookie was a letter asking to be read
and the chariot ran down south,
never got the telegrams she sent so far…

One morning sitting on cold pebbles by the sea
my feet caressed by ferries in the chanting mousse,
I tear down all piece of garment
getting lost into uncharted deepest blue…

Going closer to the bottom is a mirror
looking through is my heart unsettled,
how to love when forgotten where to see the stars
I need a prayer and a lecture from the Psalms!

Alice if there’s really you
there is something that I’d like to ask you to,
tell me what’s your real name –
so by spelling it I’ll find my why…