From West to East
Basically poems that I wrote back in Germany when I was deeply thinking about the "East" or writing on the "Asian region" or watching a Chinese Ballet in Hamburg.
Red Lantern
People talking, driving home
confused, amazed, fascinated
Chinese dancers, many emotions
what happened tonight?
Our beautiful, blue city
welcomes a story of the Far East.
Puzzled by strange feelings
Historical aura encloses us.
Shining colors, Hu's dancers as
representatives of the people?
In perfection and brutality,
Red lanterns swinging like
the sword of Damocles.
Awakening the dream of a
common future – of all fears
one certainty remains.
Understanding through images,
love, passion, desperation, death
So many differences and
one joint mystery – life!
Rain & Tears
Raindrops falling gently
No end in sight
Deep feelings, can’t breathe
Can’t see, all this rain is
Washing away my dreams
Another place so far
My heart aching
Pain keeps me awake
Miss the other side
My soul alone and hurt
So still, no movement
Raindrops everywhere
Blurring away my tears
Kneeling down hardly
No new beginning
Silent tears watching the rain
My heart cries, can’t move
Deeply miss the moment
You & You
This is about you
Out there in the East
My heart waits for you
Close to craziness
Writing about theories,
Discourses, practices,
Regions, actions, states,
And sometimes even China
Thousand words watching
Loneliness meets raindrops
Day dreaming, sleep deprived
Tumbling through the hours
Moments of closure
Where are you?
Hovering in infinity
Embedded in chosen isolation?
Dreaming of writing
Different stories about you
And you and everyone
Waiting in the East
Caught in reality, theories
Potential academic careers
Many noes, few yeses but
My heart only wants you
Geography
Geography is destiny
Destiny is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Prophecies are weak
Weakness is human.
Humanity lives in East and West
West thinks bigger than East
East rises higher
Pride goes before a fall.
Fall firstly hits our continent
Continents, ideas made in Europe
Europe too scared of China
China finally changes our world.
Every Day
Feeling a burning fever
deep down - explosion
of eternity I’m waiting
How can I survive?
Watching the sky
Cannot reach the clouds
I’m down here
Every day I’m hoping
to finally see - Passion
and persistence my two
lasting friends say hello
I’m nodding - no voice,
no strength but belief
and a strong heart.
Every day - again!
Copyright by Nadine Godehardt