David Stern

Oh, Mother Gaia
Please accept the ashes
Of my self-cremated heart
In your all-forgiving soil
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The night has spread her vast sorrow
above my head
With flickering candles of suns
long dead
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I am a furnace, empty and cold
And only ashes and soot remain
Where for a moment rampant flames blazed
This fire burned out all things inside
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The old wrinkled woman hanged herself in the sky
Her bruised round face gives a sick blue light
Which haunts the sorry creatures crawling at night
Cursing with melancholy the heartbroken lovers
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I can see a vulture
circling above my head
I can hear a hyena
laughing behind my back
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All is left is ash
After fires play
No more black or white
It's the price you pay
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Silent night, rainy night
(Third Christmas without you)
All is calm but my heart
(Third year since I met you)
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Torn out from my slumber
By a bolt that summoned rain
Black billows stunned the sky
Calm repose turned into pain
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The crow never cries
The crow never lies
The crow doesn't say a word
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Don't ask me for a humble song anymore
For its voice is mute in me
And if I'm silent, chide me not for that
Don't you want flowers from wheat...
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I
How not to be bored? when above this globe
A million silent stars glimmer
And each shines in a different way
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I
Above the Capulets' and the Montagues' houses,
Shaken by thunders, rinsed by the rain,
The calm eye of the blue.
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I
Like a wild beast M i s f o r t u n e has come to the man
Piercing with its fatal eyes...
— Awaits — —
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Don't sin by saying I've hurt thee or that I still do
For I withdrew from thee for six thousand miles
And buried my tears in the ocean depths
From which there will be pearls new...!
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Silence - only the spider stirs her web at times,
Or a gentle breeze strokes the poplar outside;
Oh! How my soul can breathe and sweetly dream -
Here no chatter, no smile shackles my thoughts.
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I
'If you search for me? -the Truth cries -
Then with temporal passions,
Untie your knot, you son of the earth!
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1.
What? to tell her… Oh! Whatever you like,
Without much eloquence;
Something - of general truths, such as: a day
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It's silly to think your wish may come true
Still, with my eyes closed, at candles I blew
And in my head I did silently shout:
"I wish A. would be my wife! "
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Fire is there and here is rain
Charm is with you, I stick with pain
I go through thick, you go through thin
I live without, while you live within
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Once I met the one
She was not the one
She missed just one thing
I missed more than one
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