Richness Of Being
Twist
Collection II
with longings I didn't quite know what it was
traveling from city to city filled me with wonder,
something was missing. Listening to music made me want to hear it the smell of night made me want to breathe it dancing made me want to feel it on my skin everywhere I went
I didn't quite know what it was.
Your soul is in there I know it I feel it and it is dying to get out
but you are giving it away you don’t even see it I want to know Why?
Am I with you for love? or Am I with you for your money? If you lost everything would I still be there in the morning?
To dance with you all night and laugh, I’ll pay, do keep your money And with your smile, honey if you did not love me, I’d still be there in the morning
If you lost your dance, baby If you lost your smile, and your music was gone, I just might, not be there in the morning I just might be gone
You will come,
though you make take
your sweet time,
I’ll just let you think
that you are the boss,
but really,
there is no rush.
I still have
lots of things to do
Yes, you’d say,
‘whatever, babe’,
but what do you know
about the mistakes
I have made?
For which some more,
I still must pay,
before they completely
go away.
But that’s ok.
I had to make them
to be who I am
becoming right now.
You’d really like me now,
but that’s ok.
Take your sweet time.
You! Make your music, and you set it free,
and it’s here, watching me, you in my room
and where does that leave me?
on its own my body moves to your beat, as if I do not control it, this electricity flowing through me
first there was silence, and then your music surrounded me and took me over
out of nothing you caused it into being,
and it’s here playing me.
Look! what you do to me! You! here in my room with me.
Kiss me, baby, yes, it feels so good when you touch my lips like that looking at me that way
Hurt me, baby, yes, it feels so good when you tell me all about her how stupid you were last night without me there making it hurt this way
You're not sure; you don't love her you like me better, but you were with her. Do make the knife go deeper
You know, I can do this better! Go out and pretend to try to drown this pain, and if you call again, I can tell you all about it, what I did, and how it didn't help.
So kiss me, baby, you hurt me like no other yes, it feels so good.
Oh, you want me. You have got to have me. You will do anything to make me yours.
I'm exciting, I'm crazy, I'm new. I make dead come back alive. Make your head spin, you are panting, You want to hold me, have me, touch me, breathe me.
Always, just a bit out of reach, just enough just a little bit, and you will have me and when you do…
Then will you stop and think about, What is it? Is it even me? That you really, really want?
I've got energy in me, enough to spread around. I smell the night, I've got to go out...
You really should call me, baby, while you're the one who's on my mind.
You really should call me, honey, cause, while you are the one who's on my mind all you've gotta do is call, and I would come.
No matter who I am talking to, no matter who I am dancing with,
I've gotta go, I would say, I've gotta go, see my boy.
I would say, and go, while you are still my boy.
Ehhmm, Excuse me! but may I step down from this pedestal you built for me? I don't want to do this anymore.
First you make me perfect: for you - the perfect queen, for you - the perfect daughter, the perfect whore for you, and for you - a perfect little engineer. Make you look good, feel good, now you are complete. And then you find a flaw. Just a little crack. Must fix this. Just a little here, just a bit more over here. Whatever you want your perfection to be.
So, I will get going now, so that you can stop looking to me, to fill in the cracks you don't want to see because when they are your own, they are never as easy to fix.
Really, so sorry, baby I would not lie to you. Please understand. Just because today, what I said, no longer stands, it does not mean, I was not sincere back then. How was I to know, a day would come and go and like the wind out in the open sea my mind would change.
love me, touch me, surround me, kiss me
all day, think of only me, playing with me, making love to me;
beg me, and demand me
in my thoughts alone I feel you on my naked soul, so
come to me, touch me, and admire me, dance with me and love me.
You can not hurt me, because I already do not feel anything.
I am safe here, inside my iceberg. Here, there is no fear, no want ....... no love.
Still trying to remember the exact moment when I died.
Maybe, in spite of yourself, you are bringing me back to life again.
Today, I've been feeling a bit of pain.
So go away.
No, I'd rather you not stay until morning. Go back to your 'girlfriend' now.
But do give me a call. Sometime? Later?
So I will hold onto this hurt, this bitter, dreadfully delicious candy. Wanting it to go away, while clutching at it: It's mine! And it's the only thing I have that tells me: I am alive.
I want to cry, and cry, but tears don't come. Cry over what? For what? Am I feeling something? Sometimes I can almost tell.
Apart – each a luminous star. Together – a spectacular play.
You asked, and I said: 'yes'. I like you, I want you, and I would love to dance this dance with you: I act the woman, you perform the man.
So, you lead, and I respond, of all the games to play, this is my favorite one. What will it be? Tango? Salsa? Waltz? or a Ballet? The whole Operetta, or just a small duet?
You asked, and I said: 'yes'. Apart – each a shiny star. Together – a breath-taking play. What will it be? Comedy? Drama? Action? or Tragedy? the same old plot, or something new entirely?
A two tape saga with something for everyone, or a flashy billboard by a freeway, as you speed by? A snappy TV show; one hour, interrupted by ads, or a commercial; half a minute, one you never forget?
You asked, and I said: 'yes'. The audience is us. Let's entertain!
So, you are surprised that this pretty little blond can program a computer, say what she means, knows how she feels, loves geometry and calculus.
Writes something like this.
Holds your stare, and moves with the music, smiles as if she dares to tell the secret.
If only they would hear.
So, why don't we, for a change, look at you and me and everyone, and feel and know: there is infinity inside, stories and journeys, oceans and gardens, and marvel at how well we manage to hide them, and forget about them.
But still. I love surprising you. And me.
My body is perfectly willing, but my soul inside me won’t compromise.
Am I the shining star in your eyes?
It does not have to be forever, it doesn’t even have to be love, but have I been on your mind? when I was not around?
My body is perfectly willing, but the woman inside me won’t compromise.
Do you think I’m extraordinary? exciting and fun? would you be proud to go anywhere you go with my body and mind at your side?
Tell me why you call me, ask me to come, want to be with me. I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t, but show me how You see me.
My mind sees your faults, So why am I thinking of you? Hurting for you?
The words you said to me I have said them so many times – I am listening to myself! I am now on the other side.
And as you said them these half truths that they are, you, my dear, have no idea how well I know the other half.
And I do understand by now how you see me. You don’t. And that’s fine.
As you hug me, one arm around me, you look right past me into the mirror you hold up in your other hand. Don’t I look good? You ask me. Over and over and over again.
And that’s ok. And, yes, you do.
Psyche and Poetry
It is a palace. Here, I spend my days, and my nights. Through the rooms and hallways I wonder. I see the grandeur and the splendor.
It is eternal and endless, there are terraces and gardens, vast chambers of dazzling beauty…
…and dusty rooms, I am scared of. In those there might be something ugly. I try not to go near.
And all throughout, there are timeless works and exquisite art, and all sorts of all kinds of other stuff.
And it is alive. Living, breathing, ever-changing. And a huge river runs right through it. And often something calls to me or overwhelms me.
I reach in. I bring it out
Here, would you like to see it?
Rejection
I like you, and so it hurts me, that you would find me lacking, not good enough for you. You – who should love me, recognize me as one of your own.
I am flawed, deficient. Is this true? I don't think that I believe it, but this pain tells me that I do.
Sun rays in my room. I awake in my bed. My heart, smiling, feels you, sweetly through my body.
I try to invent ways I can bring you to me without you knowing; to come just the way I like it.
But you know. You know!
From across the distance, you can smell me wanting you.
What do I want from you?
You pull away. What if she wants something you do not have or is not yours to give?
What do I want from you?
You are funny. Before you even know, before I even know -- you run away. Too many people wanting too many things, too much of everything, always expecting something -- from you.
What do I want from you?
What do you want to give me?
If you want to give me nothing, that is what I want from you.
You leave me in heaviness. Very slowly I exit, carefully lock the door behind me.
You don’t see me.
Mirror. In me you should see your sweetness, your openness, your love.
But you avoid my eyes.
You are afraid of these things, but they do live in you. Perhaps you fear that they are not there, Perhaps they have brought you too much pain. Perhaps you came into my life –
Mirror. I get chills. It dawns on me I am still talking about me.
I feel it leaving me this blackness; by bits and pieces I release them into the river that flows through me.
Good bye…
Love is freedom.
Many have come into my life telling me they loved me, and so in return I must give them something, be something, do something. Or else their love would stop.
And I tried hard to be a good girl, to give, to be, to do until there was nothing left of me, and so
I ran and ran and ran from this thing they called love.
But love is freedom. And love does not stop.
Ran into a wall, hurt my head, fell on my butt.
But I do! Need, want, hunger, thirst, breathe! For love!
It turned dark, and, relieved, I thought I died. Woke up with sunshine kissing my face:
Love is freedom! Love does not go away.
My prayer of Truth will rise triumphantly. And it will fly and soar. You will see.
I am soft, gentle and open, and you might see that as a weakness. But I am here to stay, and I will prevail. You will see.
And I am strong and steady, and the day is nearing when every last and first person on this earth, has plenty of food and a beautiful shelter, and all the magnificent things this life has to offer.
The day is coming closer.
There are many more like me.
You will see.
Sun & Iceberg
Collection I
There was once an old, old wooden box with a heavy lock on it. In it were a young girl’s dreams, but she forgot where she put the key to the heavy lock. Today the wooden box is on the bottom of a deep sea where not even the sun can see. The dreams are leaking out of the box one by one like liquid gold an the sea brings them to me…
An Air-Flight Away
Just a moment ago I was drinking wine, the crystal standing empty before me now; In the air was a beautiful song, but it is quiet now; Stranger’s eyes through the mirrors connected with mine. ‘Are you? The love of my life?’ Well now he is gone.
I stare into the crystal: “Where is my future? Tell me, now!” My plane ticket. Yes, I leave tonight.
But! The love of my life! What if I need just one more night? What if I leave? And he stays here? What if I stay? And he is not the one? Is he? An air-flight away?
I’m out of wine, and it’s too quiet here now…
I am walking into the dark, wind blowing, softly into my face. It feels good.
I do not see a source of light, there is no light, but somehow I can see.
I am calm, relaxed, no strong emotions, no fervid hate, no crazy, burning love. Like a sound of ocean when I am falling asleep. It feels good.
What is in the dark?
Do I hear rain? I am not wet or cold. The sound is soothing.
I know I am close to it, I can almost touch it,
it relaxes me, it excites me…
What is in the dark?
I keep walking.
Beach, sand, sand, sand, moonlight path leads into the stars.
And here I stand forever, eternal, infinite. I know God.
And we dream, but wake up to ‘real life’. And the dreams, they come here. I can feel them now. I play with them, same as sand.
And the ocean is singing: ‘This path, made of water and moonlight, come to me, just come to me; come and be amongst the stars…’
And a city sleeps behind me. I want to go, wake them all up.
You are alone, and I too, need someone. But you think you are having fun proving to yourself you can control it all. You can make anyone do anything you want. Ambition drives you and you keep going and you keep running and there is something you keep forgetting, running to find what you need, and you can not live without it. Without it tomorrow the Love inside of you will die my love for you will be gone So, today, run to me, into my arms.
feel the trance of desire feel it until the end give in do what you feel touch me
feel the beat of my heart feel it until you are in another world just you and me
magic spell whispered in the fire You in the sound of the wind of my blood
feel your head spin through the universe You in the motion of my breath
Hello, Ocean, how are you? A little strange, you are still here.
You were here when I met him. And you know that I cried for him. I feel stupid, about the crying so don’t tell anyone. You’ve seen it all blood, death and birth, despair, and you don’t fall apart. But I saw him again, and I smelled the cologne on his skin and I wanted to die. Why, when he said ‘Come!’, I just followed, again, like hypnotized. But, Ocean… Did I ask for this? Why did he come into my life? To break my heart & leave? What I pray for now is to forget. How do you do it, Ocean? How do you break the spell?
Your sound calms me, as if you understand…
I Am Fine
I am a raindrop in a hurricane that is about to come Do not tell me your secrets because I won’t tell you mine
I am a wave in the ocean that instantly makes up her mind You think you can control me watch me turn your ship upside down
I am the spark in the fire burning a forest someplace else Do not try to remember me forever time will erase my every trace.
You are where I come from, my history; I am your child,…
and I do not belong to you.
I am a flawless copy of you,
and I look nothing like you,
I understand you perfectly,
and you always confuse me, and when I want to be me, I run away from you…
Lambada notes mixing in with air It makes me want to dance, but where are you?
Sound so delightful it makes me want to do crazy things. Life is so good, but where are you?
The universe of Latin rhythm seducing me flowing through me wrapping itself around me. Oh, I want to surrender, but…
you are lost in the crowd.
Ouch. The pain of leaving and friends staying left behind for a long time, maybe forever and the Sun shines, like nothing has changed all alone on its throne I should be used to this by now it sits up there splendid and proud, doing its own thing it must be my Destiny moving on with life and leaving Love behind, aching, sweet memories scattered all over continents, countries and cities and yet never near me but the Sun has no cares it shines like everything is the same into my heart the pre-destined separation cuts another unbearable notch they say the stars are too far to be as bright, but otherwise much the same as our Sun, forever destined to mindlessly shine alone, me with my thoughts devoid of purpose.
I know I will recognize him the moment I see him, or I will know him for quite a while and suddenly realize he is the one, as he steps out of my mind dark stranger in my dreams, he will be all mine just like he is now wrapped in a fog, a mystery, plain just for me
he will be strong he will be weak
he will know everything he will be naive
he will love me endlessly and live without me easily
I can sense him nearer each passing day, his breath in my hair, his kiss on my skin. Sometimes at night I dance just for him, and he will come I know
He is dreaming right now about me, wondering if he ever finds me, he knows he will recognize me the moment he sees me.
The stranger inside of me writes poems, while I am caught in the web of ‘reality’.
The stranger inside of me waits for someone else to disclose himself to throw away the fear that drives one into hiding. Will she ever find him?
I read the pictures that I wrote to find out who wrote them. Do I need someone? to make me happy. Interesting, she keeps writing about him.
and history chokes up it’s horrors and terror gets a new synonym and the world keeps turning and life goes on and nothing will ever change
and there will be another Stalin and there will be another Hitler and hair will stand on end and there will be outrage ‘It was not our business’, they will say ‘We did not know’, they will say and then it will start all over again
I am not hungry, but the wind brings smell of flesh.
It calls to give in, hunt. It awakens ancient urges that I try, but can not satisfy.
So I turn on every brain cell, every muscle. Just be me, works every time.
Except there is no end. Like the ocean that never stops, the wind blows anew. Every time.
I stalk and prey and kill I declare victory. Still asking for the fight of all fights. The one that will leave no doubt: I am the greatest hunter alive.
Who am I??? Dead bodies left in my path. I take a look back and, pathetically, feel pride.
And the summer had to end, for some reason could not go on forever.
You were with me we laughed and danced we drove fast you wrote me letters you could not wait to see me later. The thought of you possessed me.
The summer ended and the world stopped spinning. It was over I cried I wrote I drove very fast. I refused to believe.
I hated time. The summer ended. And I hate time now. I want to go back.
My life a collection of dancing minutes, wishes, voices, and breathtaking views
What is it all for? To pass and be forgotten, or to run into a jumble in my head?
flickering trees, thoughts, names, wants, moments, roads
It is always with me in this one never ending second that I exist in, collecting more.
flashing churches, faces, pains, dreams and oceans…
My life - past and future, A jumble in my head and in your head – yours.
There is just so much inside and, if you could get in, you could never get through it.
And I go rummaging through it all often, tidying up and messing it up, but there is always a lot, so many gems and so much junk.
I have lost track of it all, a long time ago, and I do not know, where to begin when I invite you in.
And it is funny; they say this is all that counts.
In a flash of lightning just for moment I saw: the past does not exist
and there was no one to miss, no actions to regret, no words to take back
no knowledge of anything that I might want and can not have
and there I was and then
it went away.
For years, you’ve been gone, so why can’t I forget you? A few months with you. such a very short time. You are long away now.
And I still see you in strangers’ faces, startled, I look, but it’s not you. I enjoy the torture. On purpose, swimming in the hurt, to have you here in this way rather then nothing at all.
It is so strange that you will never know that I am still here, so many years later and you are so real, with me without your consent, in my imagination.
One more step, and I am home. Away from fear I am safe. Away from despair I am safe.
To become invulnerable like a rock to feel nothing.
It is too late to get lost now. One more step and I am there,
but wait. What’s wrong? It is freezing here.
There is nothing but… Everywhere… everywhere I look ice, ice, ice ?
Create & Destroy
Collection III
I do not understand, what I am doing here, when I just found you and you are there. My mind sends a momentary impulse to all my muscles: Get up, go be with him! Now! What else is more important? Why should he have to wait? He wants your love now and he deserves it. Deserves all you can give and more! And the impulse comes, and I ignore it. There is you and there is nothing else that matters more. What the heck am I doing here? All so stupid and meaningless, compared to making love to you. What if he does not want to love you later? Why should he wait till you are all done and ready with all this stuff that has no point without him? I want to go to you and wrap my arms and legs around you, my heart aches to give you all, all of me all I ever had, all I have, all I ever will, to put it at your feet just take me... What am I still doing here? And my answer? The impulse comes -- “just go! there's the door and there's my car, and...” ...nothing. I stay here.
Don’t wait for tomorrow.
Love me now. Don’t wait for perfection all around all of your life. I am within your reach, here, tonight.
What do you know? This civilization will die, a new one will arise. Continents will collide, mountains disappear into the sea. New cities will be built, and what do you know where I will be?
All that is in your heart just give it Don’t wait for tomorrow
Love me now.
I woke up scared. There was a monster there.
I tried to run and get away, but my eyes met the monsters gaze, and I saw that he was a big puppy dog. I saw excruciating fear in his eyes.
What are you doing here, honey? Look how terrified you are, barking so much and so loud. Who left you out here? Hungry, lonely, looking so shabby?
Was it my Mother? Was it my Father? Or did I?
I am so sorry, honey, please don’t bite me now. I did not see you, love! I thought you were a monster. You kept barking and everyone told me: Don’t ever look! Just run!
I wasted so much time trying so hard to get away from you, and you are just a puppy who needs an ocean of love.
Dear God. Dear Gypsy. Will I have money? Lots and lots of money? Or at least just to pay the rent and food and gas. That would be nice.
Will I have love? and romance?
Will I have a job, that doesn’t feel like I’m working? that feels like a joyful hobby, that I can’t wait to get to in the morning? that pays me lots and lots of money, and someone I can’t wait to be with in the evening?
Will I have someone who holds me? and tells me that everything will be all right, and tells me that I am good and lovely
Will I? Will I? Will I? Tell me, Gypsy. Answer!, God.
And if so, then can I have it now? Or tell me what I must do, so I can have it soon. Is it too much to ask? Can I? Can I? Can I? Please respond.
One day I dreamed that I could really live.
How dare I imagine, that I could step out, step away, step above the madness, the mundane, the deadness and just breathe.
And there was no yesterday, and I did not regret it. And there was no tomorrow, and I did not fear it.
It is real, it exists, with my last drop of blood, with my every breath, it exists, I know this, like I know nothing else.
I try to take you there, I push you, drag you, beg you to open your eyes, and see it.
But I have no right to make this decision for you. You can only go there, if you want to. You will only get there your own way, not mine. I apologize.
Take what you want. Arrest me! Seize, invade, capture, overtake me, as you stare in my face defiantly, as I say: No, you can not have me!
Imagine everything, everything you know, everything you own, everything you ever believed to be true one after another taken from you, leaving you,
no longer choking you until You is all that is left, a naked point in empty space.
It feels like death. And then, you take a breath.
This will all fall down, like everything else in the world, and maybe tonight you will meet someone new, who turns you on.
I wish I knew, what I could have done, so that I would not be loosing you now. And if I did, would I, anyway? And does it matter now? Soon enough, this hurt will be gone.
I want to heal. I want to start all over, again, from the beginning, the origin, from the source;with no errors,with no limits,just me & Life,like a rosebudboldly addressinga newsunrisewith no thought of fear,trusting,nothing to prove,nothing to earn.I want to breathe.
My lifeis stuck in traffic. If only all these cars would disappear.
Oh boy, could I then step on the gas! Oh, don’t worry about the cops. How could someone stop me for living at full throttle? They’d ask me to teach them how.
Anyway, I’m here stuck behind all these cars…
Disclaimer: Speeding is against
the law of the land
You ask me to come in, into your garden:
You will like it here, the colors, the breeze. Oh, how nice, you came, how beautiful, the conversations we have. The presence of you here, makes everything so much more intense.
Oh, but I am sorry! When I go inside the house, you can not follow me there. I will come back out, no, I don’t know when; and if I find, out of my garden you stepped out, I will be angry, and will not let you back inside.
I want you to own me and serve me be my teacher and my lover
obliterate and build me be my creator and destroyer
take what you want and hurt me force me and let me
kiss my tears and shush me when you violate me
bring me pleasure, satisfy, obey me posses, control, dominate me adore me and indulge me
you have to touch me, engage me and move me
Love’s Death Camp
Over and over, again and again, you murder and destroy me, cut me up, rape me and brutally beat me, but somehow I just wont die.
Like a hungry street dog, sneaking up to your trash can at night to find something, anything eatable you threw away did not want anyway rotting waste matter, scraps of your love Destitute, desolate and famished I consume them and live another day.
I am better off dead, alone and starving, and you do not care. I can not make you. And why should you? Look at me: pitiful, stupid and ugly.
After you are done tearing at yourself with guilt and doubts and fear, you will come back to me.
And I will make all of your pain spin and flow away. I will dress you in gold and give you a palace to live in, and if you do not like it, you can sell it and keep the profit, or give it to your lover. Anything you want, just say it, I shall bring it, and lay it at your feet.
Honey, you can not get away from me.
It is only us and the forest and the trees. The sun shines softly through them, and I can hear the ocean and the beach. Follow only your delight and pleasure. Amour, can you smell the freedom?
And I am very, very patient. When forever has ended, I will still be here.
You can turn me away, reject my gifts. If that is what you want, just speak it, and for you, I shall make it be. Sooner or later, you will walk with precision straight back into me.
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