Half light

In the desert of time,

reflection in your eyes an oasis of immortality.

You're thirsty, don't you drink?

I am talking about those who struggle without vision.

 

In the port of rationality,

passengers on board the ship of mystery,

a few half-words and a few scattered visions.

They're sinking, don't you see?

It's those who look without seeing that I'm talking about.

 

Are you lost, man?

An empty chair is waiting.

You didn't show up for your appointment.

How do you act without consulting the dreams?

It's those who know without learning that I'm talking about.

 

In her best-fitting jeans & her burning eyes.

In her smile that covers the whole of you,

when you're naked and taking on the world.

In the blond hair,

& to what is & what you want nothing else.

Isn't that what you pray to?

If not, you have not learned to believe.

It's those who have loved without falling in love that I'm talking about.

 

Hidden in the half-light the dark moment.

Watch out, he'll wrap you up.

You turn on the light, you laugh.

What happens, you wondered, when you turn it off?

It's those who hide without meaning to that I'm talking about.

 

Master, listen.

I am your student.

The sufferer, me.

Fighting without believing.

Looking without seeing.

That I know without learning.

That I loved without falling in love.

Hiding even if I don't want to.

What should I do?

 

In the half-light even silence speaks.

He advises how to enjoy this far shore.

 

Look at that.

And I thought I was lost.