Where are the plural pronouns?

the grass has grown too long on the meadow where I used to lie. It lost the prickly stiffness of grass mowed during hot summer weeks and like a giant green carpet it cushions my fall as I am wrestled to my knees by the silken June breeze. Tell me again why there's nobody left in the world. Where are the cars that swoosh from east to west in the background? Where's the hum that fortifies each and every heartbeat thundering in my ears? Where are the plural pronouns that governed my voice and the name that tied my tongue for countless hours? I tried to hold on to my field of vision: swaying green stripes on electric blue - and the slim chance to see that marvelous apricot shade again if I kept very still.

--

Writing poetry is easy:
there are letters and words,
short lines
like steps on hot asphalt,
the rhythm of a drunkard
swaying to a silent symphony
or stumbling
over invisible steps.

You can write and write
about skies and stars
while you're preoccupied
with eyes and scars
and smiles and skin that are off limits,
and that one name that doesn't rhyme,
don't mention all of that, then spin it,
cut it into verses and lines -
that's it, you wrote a little song
about a warm night's starry ceiling
about the one for which you long
and what you thought you were concealing...


In the back of my head The words are fading from my favourite songs, because nobody sings them.

musings

How is it that even after we spent years - sometimes half a life - littered with late night phone calls of affectionate silence, with love notes and flowers, with our hands buried in our lover's hair while our tongues danced the sweetest tango; years filled with handholding (sometimes absolutely neccessary and sometimes just a habit), with learning all the favourites, the pleasures, the surefire hits to evoke joy in those eyes that we had studied like books until we understood that dark chocolate on a rainy day or sucking a nipple into our mouths could spark a fire in the darkest night; and then the odd moment when their pain became ours even - perhaps even more so! - if we had caused it ourselves... How can we live through this and then still find ourselves here: At the kitchen sink on a warm night in late May, looking at or through our reflection in the window and wondering... wondering if they even know! If they even know that this was after all the real deal. That this was love.

--

How do you love someone when you know you'll have to let them go in a few years' time? How do you deal with this riptide, this strangely abstract sensation of being swept away; how do you cope with the utter necessity of pouring all your being into this love when you know the ending date is set?
Every second is right now and somehow they light your life - as cheesy as it sounds - they open you up to a host of new perspectives and you drink them up greedily; they make your life a dance more often than not; and you're afraid for them. Afraid because they are so good and pure and perfect that the world can only tarnish them.
And for now - right now - you are protector and queen, friend and moral guidance, partner in crime and refuge. You are the centre of their world just like they are the centre of yours...
But how can you stand it for even the smallest fraction of a second - how can you stand loving like this if you already know that you'll have to see them off, that you'll have to watch as they sail away on another wind?
Are you in denial? Are you still trying to love them less fiercely? Or have you resigned yourself to be ripped to shreds?

--

Lass uns in ein Land ziehen, in dem wir verfolgt werden, denn ich glaub, dass wir ihn brauchen: den gemeinsamen Feind. Lass uns in ein Land ziehen, in dem man uns foltern will, hängen oder steinigen vielleicht, das wär schön. Da könnt ich jeden Tag Angst haben, dass du stirbst und es wär ganz normal. Da wären wir auf der Flucht und ich müsste dich nicht teilen, denn es wären ja nur wir beide. Dann hätten wir andere Probleme als wie wir unser Wohnzimmer streichen oder wer die Steuererklärung macht oder warum verdammt noch mal du schon wieder die Milch hast anbrennen lassen. Luxusprobleme? Vielleicht. Und doch sind sie nicht weniger akut.
Lass uns in ein Land ziehen, in dem wir verfolgt werden, in dem wir keine Rechte haben und und keine Vertrauten. Und lass uns dort so lange bleiben, dass wir die heile Welt vergessen, aus der wir kommen. Denn meine Liebe ist nicht umsonst.

Nein, sie hat ihren Preis und den musst du zahlen, wenn du mich nimmst.

"All is full of love...

...you just ain't receiving. Your phone is off the hook..." - I got sucked into a Björk concert from 2001 and I rediscovered some of her lines that I had forgotten all about. Although, I am posting probably the most well-known here, I also had a dream-like experience when listening to "possibly maybe" again.

What if it was true, though? What if it was true for you? What if your phone was off the hook? What if your door was shut? I have to blog this, because I can hardly ask you. I would send you the concert... but I am afraid your ears are deaf to this kind of fatalism. I, on the other hand, am returning to it.
What if it was true for you?

I am asking this and cannot seem to escape the arrogance that comes with such questions. There's no room for sympathy here. I will just keep floating. If it doesn't make you do crazy things, it is not real. Or is that a lie? We have rationalized what we could and yet we keep stretching our every limb to reach across that abyss and lay our hands on the raw forces of desire. This is inhumane. It is divine.

Did I say I'm just a boy?

My family was over for a long weekend visit. We saw waterfalls and vast mountain scapes, we played cards and tag, we cooked and smiled quietly. Now they are back in Germany again and I feel more than ever that I am free to do whatever I want. Free. And that feels amazing. So I was flashing that 800W-smile on the busride home from Haugesund, mapping out a biking route for when I finally have a bicycle. I nodded to the girls sitting next to me and scored a free ride fom Ølen to Etne.

Now I have watched the Halloween episode of Grey's Anatomy and while I enjoyed it, I think it might be time to part ways with this series. I miss Christina's spot-on one liners and as much as I enjoy all the Shepherd-Grey family bliss, I miss Meredith's abandonment issues. Somehow the magic has fizzled out over the last episodes... So I have to find myself something else to cry to.

Tomorrow is the first day of my half-marathon training (that might turn into a marathon training) and I am pumped. Also, I really want to play guitar and write songs.

I turned the heating on after days of rain
now the steam is rising
you asked if I could love you again
you'd been to the horizon
and you went on
you went beyond

you've seen the sex we could've had
and it made you think
maybe we still could pick up on that
now you're on the brink
tipping the scale -
how could we fail?

You asked if I could love you again
now the tide is rising
would I dare coming back to this pain
to this bleak horizon?
Well, the answer is no


I still love you, though

Ich hoffe, die Sonne brennt dir all die Unverzagtheit aus den Gliedern. Die Worte, die aus deinem Mund fallen, haben auf irrwitzige Weise keine Relevanz mehr. Dass ich das erst jetzt bemerke nimmt mich Wunder. Wieviel Platz ist in diesem Garten für Wut? Wieviel Zeit ist in diesem Jahr noch, bis ich endlich diesen Boden verlasse, endlich lerne die richtige Tür zu zu machen, endlich sagen kann, dass es egal ist? Es ist ein Prachtsommer und ich... ich sehne mich nach Telefonaten, die still sind und nach denen man vor die Tür gehen muss, um zu schreien. Ich bin auf der Suche nach etwas, dass ich kaputt machen kann. Etwas, das du ohne es zu merken, lieb gewonnen hast. Bin auf der Suche und doch wahrscheinlich schon längst dabei.
All unsere Gespräche enden damit, dass ich "Fick dich" sage und ich schwanke zwischen 'verbrannte Erde' und Brückenpflege. Unser schlimmster Feind ist das Vergessen. Das schlichte nicht-Erinnern. Die vertraglich zugesicherte Sinnlosigkeit jeder unserer Schritte. "Das ist jetzt egal, das hast du eh gleich vergessen!", ich stelle mir vor, wie du mit einem Schwamm durch dein Hirn wischst. Und ich könnte kotzen. In all dem Grauzonentheater will ich nichts lieber als zudrücken, bis endlich schwarz wird vor deinen Augen. Das wär ja dann auch eine Ansage. Fick dich.

Never give up trying

I like to establish rules for many things in life. Rules and patterns and default outcomes. Because every single exception is oh so sweet. I indulge in patterns and formulas because I am aware that this life defies them. It surprises us time and again.

Beyond my career, my family planning, my sexuality, my ambition, my fears, my strengths, my dreams... beyond all that-... if we leave all of this aside for a moment, I am still failing at the one thing my parents want for me.

There is a trust issue here that I am just now learning to appreciate.

I know that this is all bits and pieces. I hope to elaborate on it later on.

Das ist der Unterschied.

Der Außenminister von Slowenien wollte die UN aufweichen und das Mädchen hat geweint deswegen. Während die anderen bei McDonalds duschten, hielten wir Händchen und es war egal, dass wir uns sicher waren, dass auch ein neue Versuch nicht mehr Erfolgsaussichten birgt, denn wir wussten, dass ohnehin nicht mehr viel Zeit übrig war. Wir standen im Gewandhaus neben der Orgel und das Gefühl war das gleiche. Sie trug die Hose, die damals in einem mehrstündigen Prozess ausgesucht werden musste und ihr Geruch sagte: "We're about to go down. It's all the same now." Wir wussten, dass niemand uns sehen würde, wenn wir uns selbst nicht sahen, also stellten wir uns neben dem Podium auf und küssten uns im Schatten wichtiger Reden. Es war Krieg und wir folgerichtig wieder zusammen. Denn das war ja auch Krieg.

Pragmatism and concordancing

I fell in love at the Pantibar. And it could've been Belfast or Berlin even, because geography is so overrated. Maybe if we'd tried a little harder the world would've crumpled under that Glasgow moon a few days later. How foolish it seems now to be scared of the apocalypse! But, alas, the world continued its endless rotation and you found that angst was a theme we carried well. I fell in love at the Pantibar and as a firm believer in plot twists I shrugged off all the warnings, because everybody knows that in the end even a doormat can become a queen, right? And plot twists we had! I quit drinking and smoking because I was so afraid of killing myself directly, when I'd obviously rather kill myself by proxy. Heaven knows I came close. Right now, I am not more damaged than most people at this point and I hope neither are you. After all, we tend to accept the love we think we deserve. So maybe we should reconsider our thoughts on this.
Which is why I am leaning into a pragmatic understanding of the world (which is as ridiculously doomed as it sounds - me! Pragmatic!)... and I have to say it kinda works. It goes well with a certain fatalism I acquired and it surely makes room in nihilism for a hopeless romantic. I discovered that it is in fact really easy to make this love/relationship/romance/fairytale stunt work. Considering that all you need is a minimum of attraction, an initial spark and above all the willingness of both parties to connect all the bits and pieces to a thing. Nothing fancy about it. Which makes it even sadder that people fail time and again in making it happen. After all, it can't be that difficult to deceive ourselves and weave hormonal chemistry and good timing into destiny, right?
Pragmatism basically consists in measuring all your hysterical pathos against that one simple truth: Still breathing, still alive, just another day.
That said, I am not waiting for another plot twist. I am not even hoping for it... but I have to admit it would be tremendous and epic and larger-than-life in Italian and with subtitles. And if it came along I would totally tear myself apart jumping right it, because when your life turns into an opera you stand up and sing.

Now to concordancing. I have been concordancing for a long time now. Without actually knowing it. I learned the vocabulary just a year ago in one of my seminars. I use Google to check for spelling (the option that gets more hits wins) or collocations (though they have tinkered with the "**" function I think... in all their optimizing they made quotation queries less sharp...) and when I think it is really important, or I need more detailed search functions I use on of the linguistic corpora as a concordancer. I like concordancing, because it doesn't tell what to do, but rather gives you the statistics about what the rest of the world does. And if you decide to say things differently then you have it your way.
Sometimes I wish there was something like concordancing for life. Because in our religious egoism we feel so unique (though some small voice in the back of our heads knows we probably aren't) and I think it would be good to simply type in a few words into some concordancer and see: "writing applications after graduation" gets more hits than "not writing applications after graduation" but the difference is not a great as expected. Or: "Thinking your life has changed when it hasn't" is not as uncommon as you want to believe - our brain is sneaky like that.
Of course, we would still be clueless about where to go from here, but at least we would be absolutely certain that millions of others are just as confused.

Die Freibadsaison ist eröffnet!

Ich habe mich entschlossen, ein glückliches arbeitsloses Leben zu führen. Schließlich ist Sommer. Kann mir ja im Grunde egal sein, wenn ich fürs Nichtstun bezahlt werde. Mit dieser neuen Perspektive geht es mir erstaunlich gut. Die Parks sind mein, ich lese viel, ich versuche (Sportverbort sei Dank! *grr*) nicht so viel zu laufen und stattdessen mehr zu schwimmen und ich koche großartige Dinge. Prompt sah ich heute meine "Chefin" im Park. Sie war mit Nordic-Walking-Stöcken unterwegs und ich habe mit Andi Einbeinkniebeuge gemacht, worüber meiner Ärztin vermutlich den Kopf geschüttelt hätte. Aber noch weiß man nicht genaues. Ich hab jetzt zwar ne hübsche CD mit Detailaufnahmen meiner Lendenwirbelsäule, bin aber kein Stück schlauer.
Nur eines ist mir aufgefallen: Vor dem MRT wurden mir ein paar Fragen bezüglich der Schmerzen und meiner Krankengeschichte gestellt. Keine davon war offenbar für meine Hausärztin von Belang gewesen. Nicht, ob ich gestürzt war, schwer gehoben hatte, die Schmerzen sich verschlechterten - nein. Sie hatte mich quasi nur durch ihr Behandlungszimmer zum MRT durchgewinkt. Nun ja. Hab ich das auch mal gesehen.

Ich trage mich mit dem Gedanken, morgen die Freibadsaison einzuläuten und gleich morgens im Schreberbad auf der Matte zu stehen... aber das wird wohl das Wetter morgen entscheiden.

--

Notiz an das zukünftige Ich: Mit 25 ist eines meiner Hauptanliegen an meine Zukunft, bitte auch mit 60 noch ein aktives Sexleben zu haben. (Ja, ja und Weltfrieden!)

--

Ich starb einen Juli lang. Jeden Tag. Bei jedem Sonnenaufgang und mit jedem Schritt, immer wenn ich die Vorspultaste drückte und seltsam verwirrt auf Buchseiten starrte. Ich starb einen Juli lang. Wählte eine Telefonnummer und wusste nicht, was zu sagen. Es war ein unheimlich langer Monat. Mit brennenden Füßen auf heißem Asphalt, mit Erdbeerblut an den Händen... und jeden Abend setzte mein Herz aus, hielt mein Atem an, wollte all mein Sein Nichtsein werden. Ich starb einen Juli lang. Und überlebte doch. Man müsste meinen, ich hätte gelernt, es zu nehmen, wie es kommt. Denn es kommt wieder und wieder. Aber es stirbt sich nicht leise.
Im Juli aber soll man ausziehen in die Hitze der Nacht, soll dem Leichtsinn die Hand reichen und nackt durch Seen schwimmen, man soll auf Bordsteinen sitzen und das Leben bewundern und den küssen, der da ist, im Juli. Ohne Hintergedanken. Einen Juli lang.

Spielball

Wir führen Kriege in unserem verwahrlosten Englisch. Draußen liegen die grünen Wiesen noch ungemäht und wir reiben uns ungläubig die Augen. Haben wir uns nicht gegenseitig ausgezehrt für jenes Existenzminimum, das nur für einen reicht? Woher also kommt der ausgefüllte Lottoschein in meiner Tasche? Der Schlussgong ertönt und wir wischen uns die Kriegsbemalung aus dem Gesicht, orientierungslos. Vielleicht war das alles nur ein Spiel, nie wirklich ein Überlebenskampf. Hinter den Scheinwerfern kein Publikum und die klaffenden Wunden nur aufgeklebt. Du zuckst die Schultern. Alles nicht so schlimm auf einmal. Feierabend in der Arena. Gehn wir noch auf ein Bier an der Ecke? Vielleicht morgen.

-- I guess the answer is no then...

A love-letter or a break-up song

I've seen the mountain where you laid your heart bare for me. The snow had melted and some long lost flowers grew. And down there in the valley I couldn't help wondering how you spent your life on all the chances you blew. I've climbed that mountain because I hoped to discover that all was not lost, but guess what I found? The snow had melted and the year was another, but lover to lover - there's still a heart on the ground. Is it yours? Or mine? Or anyone's at all? There are libraries of things that we don't know. We have to trust this world - ever turning - to do the right thing... is that so?
I've seen the mountain and I dared to move it. I dragged it across the earth just an inch - and now the world turns faster, now the world turns slower! Not for you though, honey, 'cause now you never go there... I moved a mountain and realized there was no fault in our plan, only maybe that we had none.
You laid your heart bare. Who said this had to be difficult?

--

I will be stubborn and over-the-top and maybe even despicable sometimes. And you will have to love that about me as well. I will? Yes. Okay then. Thanks for the heads up.

It is not that we are caught in this illusion of being immortal. We just discovered that even in the face of all that misery and pain we are unable to die.

I am on a voyage of discovery

in my room. Leafing through texts from the past two years.

"We're better than this. More than a room in an ivory tower. We stretched our heartstrings and wove them to kites just in time for the autumnal thunderstorms. I'm waiting for lightning to strike us and burn us down to the bone, because so far our story is written in the colour of phoenix's ashes."

--

"Das Schlimmste ist nicht das Warten, nicht das nicht-erzählen-können und nicht das Ende in Sichtweite. Das Schlimmste ist meine Verachtung für mich selbst, die hämische Stimme im Hinterkopf, wenn ich mich für Augenblicke von außen sehe: "Bist du immer noch hier? Und wartest? Worauf? - Du weißt es doch besser.", und ich weiß es besser, natürlich. Und bleibe. Schleife meinen Stolz ab, weil er der Preis ist für diese zu kurzen Wochen. Für jeden Satz, den ich mit >vielleicht< beginne, für Zugfahrpläne nach Süden, die mir niemals nützen werden, für das letzte bisschen Hoffnung. Es ist ein hoher Preis. Aber du bist mir teuer. Und was ist ein Leben, für das man sich nicht ganz gibt? Für welches nächste Kapitel sollte ich mich zurückhalten, wofür den Stolz mitnehmen, wenn es dann nicht einmal eine Geschichte gibt, die man nicht erzählen kann?
Also nehme ich das Messer und schneide großeStücke ab von mir. Ich lege sie dir unbesorgt in die Hand - tritt unbekümmert darauf - ich wachse nach wie ein Seestern. Anders zwar als vorher, aber irgendwann wieder ganz, wieder heil. Denn wer nicht zu hoffen wagt, behält vielleicht Recht, aber unversehrt bleibt auch der nicht. Dafür ist dieses Leben nicht gemacht. Darum schleife ich meinen Stolz ab und tausche ihn ein für ein paar weiße Nächte, denn die sind selten und der Preis vielleicht hoch aber doch nicht zu hoch."

--

"Wenn uns der Glaube verlässt
und nur die Welt hält uns fest,
das Geld hat uns im Griff,
wir zwei ein schwankendes Schiff

Wenn unser Blick nicht mehr reicht
und nur noch hart ist statt weich,
aus allen Träumen erwacht
und nur noch Tage und Nacht

Dann gib uns nicht auf,
halt weiter fest an mir,
gib mich nicht auf,
denn wer solls sonst schaffen -
wer, wenn nicht wir?

Wenn unser Herz stetig schlägt
und alles Tosen sich legt,
die Nächte nicht mehr so weiß
und Feuer nicht mehr so heiß

Wenn unser Schweigen kein Raum ist
und du nichts hörst, weil du taub bist,
wenn wir uns leise entfernen,
um uns nur Staub, keine Sterne

Dann gib uns nicht auf,
halt weiter fest an mir,
und ich geh dich nicht auf,
denn wer solls sonst schaffen -
wer, wenn nicht wir?"

--

I have about 10kg of paper documenting this rollercoaster ride of bliss and misery. It could be arranged as an exhibition, an introspection giving new life to the same old story. Astonishing, really, how my mind can't seem to stop putting everything into words, trying to hide, to conceal, to celebrate, to enlarge or to diminish... How much of your life can you throw away?

There's no life...

... more amazing than this one. And there is no magic more profound, than singing a song without even realizing it. Just because your heart sings. The universe hums your melody.

Am I too full of myself?

There are those rare moments when my own confidence takes me by surprise. I have the urge to run up to your house now and convince you that you want me. You just haven't looked in your heart yet. You want to spend your life with me. And it would be a rollercoaster ride of freak outs and cliché romance. You love me. I just wished, you'd figure it out yourself.

Being nochalant has never gotten anyone very far

"You know, when we first started seeing each other I wasn't sure if I could deliver. He seemed to be into this up to his neck and I was just... I had no guarantees, no plan or even wish on how things should turn out. I felt I might be taking him for a rollercoaster ride of attraction and longing and deception. But he seemed so unfraid, so certain, so... I took the plunge. And I discovered that I could do this. I could take the plunge again and again everyday. I could dare to be commited, to be head over heels, to be hopelessly, madly in love with him. There was nothing deceiving about it. I was in for a lifelong romance made up of day-to-day "I do"s. Even when I was angry with him. Even when I hated him. I still made the decision to be his. I still was certain that he should be part of the mess I come home to.
Funnily though, the more certain I became about my own commitment, the more important was his. What if, one day, he questioned his decision to be with me? What if his life could function just as well without me in it? Where would that leave me? Would I be able to loosen this bond again? I went a little crazy there. And somewhere along those lines, I lost him. I suppose he is not coming back. Ever. Yet, my heart hasn't grown out of choosing him. Each morning, each day, every night. I deliver. I want him to know all the small things about me. Like, how the smell of strawberries makes me so happy, I eat them even though I don't really like the taste. Or that I block the shower with 7 different shower gels that I use according to my mood of the day. I wish he wanted to know that. Because I let him in. And now I cannot seem to get him out again."

--

"When I married her, I opened my world to her. I made her a part of my life. And along with her came her family, her hometown, her jokes and childhood fairytales, her dreams and adventures, her ambitions and scars, her traditions, friends, her favourite colour on the walls of our living room and her most precious books on my nightstand so I could read her page by page. My favourite music didn't become hers. But she listened to it while doing the dishes and it made her smile because it was a part of me.
When you share a life it is impossible to count all the things that you share. And most of the time, it is only when you try to separate those lives again that you notice that you will get out half a life only, if you take away what you brought in.
Had you told me this morning that I would be without her tonight... I would've had trouble breathing from laughing so hard. Laughing at the absurdity of this incomprehensible half-life. It will be mostly pain for a while now - but after that? Does her hometown become a blank spot on the map? Do I leave behind her hilarious New Year's ritual? Shall I repaint our flat? Abandon it altogether? And if I don't - who would be willing to suffer through this life with me? "

--

Life doesn't make sense. Either we make sense of it, or it is all just an arbitrary line of actions. I am drawing a black X on my chest. Just in case you needed help identifying the target.

Übers Ziel

Ich bin übers Ziel hinausgeschossen. Ich hab dich mit Isolierband repariert und Blumen gemalt, wo Risse waren. Hab gesagt, dass vielleicht nur eine kleine Narbe bleibt und alles gut wird. Natürlich, alles gut. Ich griff nach deiner Hand, den Berg hinauf und hinunter, in Gedanken am Strand. Den Blick nach vorn, drückte ich deine Linke im Takt meiner Schritte, erzählte vom Meer und vom Ankommen und jedes zweite Wort war "bald". Fühlst du das Rauschen? Bald kannst du es sehen. Hörst du das Salz in der Luft? Den wogenden Horizont? Alles wird gut. Und nur dein Zauberpuls als Antwort, meinen Arm hinauf und dort angekommen, verharrte er unsicher zwischen Kopf und Brustkorb. Deinen Herzschlag in der Kehle, fühlte ich mich verstanden.

Und nur nach vorn. Durch Felder und dann über Dünen und endlich am Ufer. Und ich wollte sagen, Schau, wie groß es ist! Kannst du das Ende sehen? Oder auch nur erahnen? Wir könnten versuchen, hindurch zu schwimmen und kämen niemals an! Wir könnten uns hierhin setzen und es würde Tag und Nacht und dann Winter und wieder Sommer und wir würden alt werden vielleicht, aber das Meer wäre immer noch genauso unheimlich groß. Und auch meine Liebe wär noch da. Genauso unheimlich groß. Das wollte ich sagen und holte Luft, sah dich an - doch es war nur deine Hand. Ohne Arm, ohne Schulter, nur ein bisschen Isolierband klebte noch daran. Alles wird gut. Aber eine Hand wächst nicht wieder nach. Keine Narbe. Nur ein fühlbares Nichts. Alles wird gut, hab ich gesagt... ob sie dir wohl fehlen? Die fünf Finger, meine Lieblingshand? Ob sie dir wohl fehlt? Ich bin übers Ziel hinausgeschossen. Vielleicht wird alles... Am Ende könnte das Meer doch zurück weichen. Ein Horizont aus Festland könnte auftauchen. Wenn ich nur lang genug schaue. Vielleicht ist auch das Meer nur heimlich groß.

Two girls on a bike

We were just two girls on a bike.

And while I brought you home
you held on tightly.
We breathed and laughed
four lungs
full of being in awe.

The powdered streets
and your mittens
were a testimony
of our recklessness -
January can be part of our spring, too!

Riding through a sleeping city,
the steam clouds
of our breath
trailing behind us...
that was when we took a first sip
of that dizzying happiness.

--

Dieser Monat ist lang. I was afraid of writing songs and losing them with you.

"Don't move so slow..."

"... I can't take it..." Because I felt I was getting nowhere and because I need all my procrastination for university and work, I decided to set up a new plan for training that is less vague and trades rest days for alternative activity. I am on it since Monday and so far I am not quite sure what to think of it. I haven't run this slowy for a very long time. And I haven't laced up my running shoes for a mere 5 kilometers for the same time. It feels a bit ridiculous. But I will give the plan a chance. So far it is laid out for 6 weeks and the intervals(starting next week! :) ) look quite challenging. Hopefully, it will be less frustrating then. For now I am just running reeeeeeeeally slowly. Which might be an advantage considering the snow and the ice on the street...

--

If somehow, miraculously, you were given ten days, ten nights and no morning beyond - where would you take them? If you had ten days left, what would you eat, where would you sleep, what would you see? For 240 hours, how much would you allow yourself to feel? If we were given counted time, instead of endless endeavour, would all of this still matter? Would we still plan ahead and have to deal with regret? If we were sure it ended, would we begin to begin? Or can't we break out, is this numbness our skin?
Maybe you have ten days. Or maybe it's two. Or twenty-thousand. Maybe it's always to soon. And if I had ten nights and no morning beyond... I'd spend some with you.
And nothing hurt.

Hey, they are playing that song...

I just wondered if you will remember the song. I guess, the pain will stay. I will have to find a way to relish in this life anyway. Sign me up, Santa Fe...

---

The snow is falling just the way I love it and I finally laid my hands on that book on psycholinguistics that I always wanted to read. It is for work obviously. I think I will take it home with me for the weekend. And I will devour it like a novel. Psycholinguistics is very dear to my heart, as it ties in with so many theories I've developed from my early childhood onwards. Language is fascinating.