Under God

I don’t need your silence
I despise the calm
revolution,
turning on the time
the staircase wakes me up
painting my world upside down
I can feel the sacrifice…
no more leaps on your Church
the steps are marked in ancient blood
the voices crawl within
the heavy doors are thin –
long past midnight
I chose a different path to walk
another God to serve;
from nothingness comes struggle
the debt is payed in sorrow
after darkness follows light
as we forget the saints…

Julia

odd key is out of tune
the turning never ends
a big house with big windows and bigger skies still,
the glass is half empty
even half full
and the noise is killing slowly
in your face I see the fall,
where is the beauty ?
where is the pain ?
where is that life
happy,
insane,
they die one after the other
heroes of thy father,
and I lie my ear down on the strings of a sound that never spins…

I am in the wrong,
for how much long ?
out of pity
it grows
it feeds on the sadness
larger than the world that it quotes,
blue tainted hair and blue painted nails,
it scars the skin
it bleeds
and it dreams,
in between hills
where the water spills
the burning has passed with a bottle of gin
and so,
Julia dreams…

The Silence

Where does it all begin,
up until we end together I may spill a thousand dreams…
I’ve been given a broken ladder
but the courage was within,
I have shaped my words in pain and painted purple in the dark
saw you sparkling,
you left shadows in the chambers of my heart –
that sweet emotion,
always longing for those lights up in the mountain…

In the end we are alone
swimming in our ocean,
strangers –
nothing more than falling stars burning to exhaustion,
looking not for love but all there is to give
our passion for another…

Sonnet for a friend

What to scribble when there’s nothing left to say?
only scattered pointers, lines and colon breaks,
happy words I used before are turning meaningless
and the page is blank each time I do confess…

there is this growing fear engulfed in nothingness
wished I had a burning heart like the furnace in the sun
or a heart of clay to mold the passion through my days,
but I’m built from aching flesh and longings in a dream…

climbing on a ladder leading to no end
I must’ve lost the way for looking back I saw no other
only darkness dressing up the feelings I’ve held in
and I asked myself “Oh father where do I begin?

Sonet

Cu degetele înmuiate în sevă pictează noaptea înstelată pe trupu-mi dezgolit,
hrănește-te cu carnea de pe mine
și rupe bulgări din țărână,
stoarce flori de viță peste munții amândoi
să nască iazuri reci când totul e fierbinte;
din palme toarnă stropi de rouă, seara peste ceruri și astăzi peste mine,
paznic pentru buze, gândul de pe urmă,
pune-i pecete de ceară…

Life Oddity

I wrote an epistle to Father,
sung my sweetest lullaby
I checked the engine for another thousand times
no thing left to one’s imagination,
life’s a crumble made with salt
spice may never alter paths sculpted on the dunes,
the oasis nowhere to be seen
but in my most futile dream, so far away…
charge your paddles up to fifty-eight
stay clear!
lazy hearts may never feel and walls are going up forever
stairways takes your steps to last and cruel judge,
I held your hands,
I tried to catch the butterfly that went away
and then the stillness comes leaving but the story to be told
and my spirit gets so old,
my heart a stone
gone,
you left me all alone,
only darkness at the dawn….

Sfârșitul

Sfârșitul e aproape
coloanele se înclină peste ceruri
umbra ta dispare în soarele ce naște
pașii în nisip sunt gânduri puse-n ghips
ochii se închid –
mătase se revarsă prin jaluzele trase
ape izvorăsc din piatră
orașul se transformă în stihie fără dogmă,
îngenuncheați primim chemare
rădăcini de sare celor spovediți în Mare
degetele rupte
mere de alamă
Edenul este o cursă cu suflete de sticlă
trandafiri din plastic
toamnă de pe pânze,
ceara ta fierbinte curge peste buze
fiecare carte răpește o himeră
cuvintele șuvoi,
ia-le înapoi,
eu doresc lumină –
sfârșitul e aproape
șoaptele sunt coapte
plouă peste trupuri cu baionete roase
din inimi nemișcate macii se înalță
dar orele, orele sunt moarte…

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…