Lorenz

Gardens

Like something out of a watercolor 

dreamed up by a maid painter .

These gardens of nowhere 

in an afterlife just around the corner..

 And I ask myself : 

 \"Is there still hope  somewhere 

for a garden of voluptuousness ? \'\'

 Gardens falling asleep in the biterness

of an old age made up of so many childhood ...

No more blondes coming to eat cherries

in these gardens that shiver 

like cemeteries  in  summer .

French,english or  from Babylon ,

gardens of beginning and end ,

shadows are always cold 

and ask for the warmth of the living...

A few notes of old jazz in the night

a few drops of gin before heading off 

  into infinity ..

The dead invent lives in moonlit gardens 

but they\'re just rain pearls in an empty glass.

I went in search of the little prince ,

but I think h\'es lost in a desert ,

looking for a sheep ...

 Or so unhappy in a garden of roses all alike .

 And I ask myself : 

\" Is there still  somewhere  a desire to surrender 

  to the sweetness  of a winter  garden ? \'\'