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ONCE I USED TO THINK a lot about death
I used to determine accurate dates
in which I would die, the last one was
at the age of twenty eight
now I am 33 years old
walking in Paris and seeing dead people
thinking they are alive, and I
walk in Paris from store to store
and don't see any books of poetry,
they are in the corner that no man
can see, in a city of dead people
people without poetry
once I used to think a lot about death
now every day alienates me from death
I go from death to life
to the light and someday I will see the big light
on the day all people nickname death
it will be long ago like always
there I will meet you at seventeen
to tell you there is love, and not only disappointment
there you will meet me at seventeen
to tell me there is life, not only death
and our lives will change without end.
past and future
will cross will kiss inside a Star of David
past future present
will unify will explode
then I will say to you this is not life
this is not the world because there is,
above all this there is something else
another world in which you and I are one
in which there is no death, only life
another world in which the light
does not become a shadow
in which it is possible to view the sun
another world in which you are not in which I am not
in which we are not alone
In which we don't see ourselves
in which we are but we
the more I live
the more
death distances from me.