For years you have tried to get somewhere
So many times you thought you were about to get somewhere
But you got nowhere-
Now you are old
You still sometimes think you will get somewhere
You still sometimes hope-
But you know you will not
That all the years in which people go from somewhere to somewhere slightly better until they finally get there
Are gone for you-
You are old
And still at the beginning
Nowhere-
You are nowhere
And going nowhere
And that makes you nothing
You are nothing going nowhere
And you now know it -
And yet tomorrow
You will wake up
And think you will get somewhere again-
To have been a fool all your life
Is not a great virtue-
Nowhere nowhere and nothing
Are your name-
And where you are going
Is just nowhere-
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem