Greeting from Africa, surrounding you with the lonely and desperate silence of death, in the vastness of the desert, Sahara. Last breaths under the burning sun, dust and sand in the eyes, in the mouth, in the lungs. Burned skin. It’s traveling over the Mediterranean Sea, carrying desert sands, absorbing and transporting the nameless but… Continue reading Heatwave
Category: Trauma
The Expulsion from Paradise
In exile, far away from everything and everyone who meant something in your life.The pain of loss is unbearable, your heart broke severely. The world became a homeless place, a place without love, a place without warmth.Banishment and separation.You took the pain of the war zones with youThe war with youThe war is withinAn inner… Continue reading The Expulsion from Paradise
Dark Nights of the Soul
This realm of numbness,your daily life,a vision of reality seen through veiled eyes.Dazzling colors of grey,faking a truth of joy and pleasure and happinessand purpose –while the dark nights are full of loneliness and desperation.You cry your blurred eyes out,tears of hope, wishful thinking, desire, dreams.Unseen, unknown, unshared.As dark as the night, as unseen and… Continue reading Dark Nights of the Soul
A piece of bliss
Your mind is confused, where did yesterday disappear to? Yesterday she was still there, warm and soft, and today everything is empty. No approval, no attention, no tenderness. Only oblivion. It’s not true anyway, you don’t know for a long time what to believe outside of what you’ve learned to think. Your world is an… Continue reading A piece of bliss
Homo Homini Lupus
With all your might you kick him in the face. His teeth break and blood gushes from his mouth. His agonized groan reminds you to kick immediately to make it stop quickly. The audible crack reaches your mind in that brief moment, telling you that his jawbone is broken. As if in a frenzy, you… Continue reading Homo Homini Lupus
Me, myselfie and I
Trench Warfare
You can’t believe it yet but you have carried her to the grave. Tears run down your cheeks, the time of holding on, of salvaging – it’s over. Torn from you from one minute to the next, the hope that it could get better, that the suffering would be rewarded and thus get a meaning,… Continue reading Trench Warfare
Plastic Love
You can’t let go of the smooth surface, you slide off without holding on, you see yourself reflected in her lifeless eyes, no more danger here. The feeling of dull superiority fills you, mixed with numb forlornness. There was a time, you can’t remember exactly when you could feel your heart beating in your chest.… Continue reading Plastic Love
Hen Party
So there it was at last. This moment, this one. The one. Twinkling, I look down at you, up again, into your eyes, which are mine. I no longer recognize myself. My memory is distorted, and so I think I do not know you, and I have known you all my life, but my whole… Continue reading Hen Party