The buzzing in my head
It’s a quiet night and I can hear the buzzing in my head even more than usually. I remember exactly when it became a part of my life. It’s only a few years ago that I dropped out of uni and folded up my tents. […]
Category: Germany
The fear that I feel
This hate, that you show me, I can defeat love is stronger than hate This rage, that you throw into my face, will not appeal me my smile is stronger than rage But the fear, that you feel, I can understand I feel it as […]
A part of the earth
I was walking my regular way, step by step the same path as always. Every day. How often did I put my foot on the exact same part on the ground? How often did I step on a few centimeteres of the same part of […]
It is always night
Men they cry, children they die Yet the bombs… they fall Women they cry, prayers they die Yet the bombs… they fall like the night It is always night there It is always dark there They are still dying there They are still crying there […]
Don’t put me in there
“That’s a girl”, claimed the acquaintance of my parents and ignored the protest of my five-year me: “No, I’m a boy.” Girls are stupid and bitchy, and I didn’t want to be that way. “You’re gay”, shouted a guy at me. My teenie me left […]
My heart is burning
Your heart is burning, sister Down there in the south A mountain of polyester makes your eyes tire Your voice sets out towards the sun you embrace your tears in the land without rain In the land without rules once died your child her screams […]
The raising allegory
All people are the same but some are samer. same, samer, the samest. pale, paler, the palest. white, whiter, the whitest. Black, blacker, the blackest. Steps of racism. A bit racist is the same as a bit pregnant. Literally impossible. Racist, Nazi, Hitler would be […]
Who am I to help you?
I am not very strong Or extraordinary smart Have more quirks than I would like I have a name that many have A face in which many find themselves Who am I to help you? Often I can’t even help myself Let alone understand. I […]
