The end of a love affair


How endless it all seems
Those feelings that remain
Also those will disappear
And will leave no trace


It's like sunshine
Trying to break through
With warmth and light
Into a misty morning


The cycle of life itself
Where nothing new
Will make a start
Before the old has died


It's not easy at times
When it is needed to stop
When things in the past
Have gone to the heavens


All that are left
While looking ahead
Good memories of you
In my life


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Living Down Under


For someone like me
Living in the Old World
Called Europe
Down Under appears
Like falling off
At the End of the World


What a limited point of view


And so 
I took on 
Another viewpoint


I am now looking
From Down Under
To Europe, America
All of the rest
It looks like now
Europe is not falling 
Off the planet but almost
How silly actually the idea


New Zealand and Australia
The center of the world
No one has realised it yet
Except for ages long
The Aborigens
And the Brisbane 
And Auckland people


So if you are living Down Under
And people are calling you so
I call it now 
The Land on the Up and Up
And I'll meet you there


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The Singer


I have been near musicians
All my life
We shared the stage
And communicated

But never was the message
As clear and direct
As from the Singer

I have never seen a soul
Nor did anyone else
With earthly eyes

But I have heard
A soul very clearly
Very direct
From unmeasurable deepness
With a scala of emotions
Which touched my very heart
Again and again, every time
When I hear the Singer

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The Emperess of Nizhnevartovsk

The Emperess of Nizhnevartovsk

Has a desire in her eyes

While she is travelling

Across the cold

And the loneliness

Of the Russian tundra

She has a desire

To see again

The reason

Why 

She is in a dream

And lost

Her heart

To the Prince of Novgorod

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© picture 2016, courtesy of Anna Volzhina

Agnes

We were close
Very close
When we were seventeen
While you had
That long blond hair
And a bike
That I had to change
For another
Because your legs
Were too long

I had to grow up
To the fact
You lost your parents
When you were twelve

And we were close
Even when you were sitting
At the other end
Of the college room
Smiling

We were close
Very close
And we were happy




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Friend


I just met you
Somehow somewhere
And the sparkle of a memory
Told me there was something
More to you
Then my eyes were seeing


We were just friends
My heart said yes
But my mind said don't


Would we ever tell
Each other


Would I ever tell
That I liked you
Without starting
A passionate romance


We are friends


You are
A friend
And because of you
I am a friend of you too


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The taste of speed

I want to forget about my body
I want to forget about my life
Speed is my addiction
Speed is my biggest strife

Get that motor running
Get it into the highest gear
Push the throttle deepest
Push away that fear


See the surroundings fading
See the surroundings die
Slowly things are getting lighter
Slowly I move up into the sky


I have my prediction clearly
I have my prediction there
Still twenty rounds to go for
Still twenty rounds without care


The smell of speed I'm tasting
The smell of endless space
I am coming down the line again
I am coming down with pace



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