Life is an anomaly,

non-existence is normality.

The act of breathing -

inhaling, exhaling -

every heartbeat

a rebellion, a defiance

before the void.

Our inevitable defeat

should not make us

question the fight,

for continuing to fight

is a victory in itself,

for life against oblivion.

29.09.2013

A graveyard comedy

A lonely ghoul gnawed a bone

in a corner of the small mausoleum,

among rotting coffins it sat

among bodies it once knew

when they all walked in the light

and talked the talk of men

and the sun. But now it

was darkness and the moon

and the coldness of the night

and the tomb. It sat and gnawed,

it knew not who it had been,

it just knew it had lost,

but whether it was a name,

a life or a bone with tasty marrow

it knew not and it cried in the night.

29.09.2013

I'm Going Slightly Mad

Are they trying to tell you something

You're missing that one final screw

Queen

There are nights when you think you are going mad

and then there are nights when you realize that you have gone mad

and outside, in the darkness there is nothing;

all the horrors are inside your head,

in your mind and you think of taking them out

with a knife or beating them into silence with a hammer,

as they crawl there like maggots, white mass

that fills your skull and the knife and the hammer

are so soothing in your hand - the calm calling

of the dawn, light, silence,

and the cool coldness of sleep...

29.09.2013

A Fragment

On his cross sat Jesus, eating a heart still quivering

when He took the first bite. Holy was he, covered in

blood dried and anew, the Risen Lord, the Father

of Vampires with his First Raised Lazarus gibbering

below, looking at the eyes that once owned the

heart and they looked back, the brightest eyes, the

eyes of an angel, feast of the Messiah.

Outside, in the darkness that was the world,

the Apostles hunted.

29.09.2013

Yellow, orange, red

Cold rain,

autumn's nectar

falling on

faded leaves.

21.09.2013

Without withering months

and the long, cold winter

there could be no spring

of new green grass,

first flowers and chirping

of chicks in nests,

no hot summer days

and white nights,

without the fading of life

there could be no birth.

21.09.2013

What was between

The night opened your eyes

with its swift, dark brush strokes
and you awakened in darkness;

the morning closed them with its soft, pale light

that moved hesitantly over the land

as you entered another night

where the hours of the night gone

came back twisted telling

of your fears deeply buried

from the light of mind and day.

20.09.2013

Yellow leafs floating in puddles

reflecting gray clouds, dark trees

- the shivering season before

white sleep under cold stars.

19.09.2013

Have we not been here before?
This exact moment, this silence between us,
these frozen looks on our faces,
the rain hitting the window,
the clock ticking away.
We remember this now,
but do we remember how we
got away from this?

The light outside fades.
Hesitantly I extend my hand
over the table
and see your hand reaching for mine.

19.09.2013

Love

We shared something

but in the end

neither of us knew what.

So we went

on our separate ways,

both still wondering

what had brought us

together, tied us

into each other

before being lost.

It must have been

something special.

11.09.2013

This disappearing world,

this life which in myriad paths converges

towards disappointment and the void,

this moment of reflection

in the fabric of time, sinking

to the past and beyond memory,

to words trembling

in black and white

in fear of their own oblivion.

All illusion, all real,

all dance of atoms,

the soundless music of the strings.

11.09.2013

Oh, the past, the past,

the wound that doesn't stop bleeding,

the cry that doesn't stop echoing,

the pain that doesn't stop hurting but

eats its way through the years

turning into decades

as you tumble towards death.

05.09.2013

To destroy printed books

you have to work with fire,

sending libraries up in smoke,

but to destroy an ebook

you just need to press Delete.

To destroy heritage of humanity

you just need a few clicks

with a mouse.

02.09.2013