25/07/2005
The only sin is detachment
There is that cafe
- a couple of inmigrants run it.
They always get my command wrong.
And, do you know?
They look poor.
I always look at the woman's womb,
- she is pregnant
before I accept whatever they happen to bring me.
It is only then that I awake
to the simplest truth:
the only sin is detachment,
all others stemming from it.
And how the heart falters.
How do I wonder
why we always fail
in so many ways.
Nor do we know
what is needed to be necessary.
All the same
we turn the light off at night.
And how it all
falls upon my heart.
What I want of that moment
is simple.
In this world,
the only sin is detachment.
And how the heart falters,
missing you.
- Pet
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Taking care of broken windows
Do you remember,
back then?
The second day you stayed at home
we spent all morning tidying up - together
We might be a bit crazy
- or not
Whatever, it was an old trick -
good old trick.
Because most things end up
exactly the way they begin.
Even love,
even this love
For love is, all too often,
as simple as taking care of broken windows.
For love is, all too often,
just work.
- Pet
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24/07/2005
Love as salt
Human action is judgment
- or so I am told.
All the same is this longing fueled
by the scent of jasmin at dusk.
Getting to know this waiting as love,
this love as salt.
- Pet
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22/05/2005
Listening
Listening . . .
Oh, it is so difficult
to suspend judgement
Believe me,
If somebody teaches me
I promise to learn!
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13/05/2005
Rational Fear
To a rational man- as I am
it is difficult to understand that
fear is the distance - a fence - the crack
that no man's land,
Between writing a poem
and combing your black as night hair.
Autumn rain falls
all the same.
- Pet
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