Lorenz

Fanny

Fanny,I remember ,

you played to cello

Prenzlauer strasse,

drawing on the snow

an arpeggio of melancholy...

Berlin no longer slept 

 in the breath of its madness...

Fanny,your pale porcelain eyes 

lost in a past  still alive 

where dreams sold memories of stone .

I was listening to this wall and night melody 

of angels flying on the rooftrops... 

Requiem for old Germany 

or a new world concerto ?

 The cello like a body 

between your slender legs

that a light wind of freedom

discreetely uncovered ...

 Fanny,the dust of time 

mingled with your blond hair

like warm harvests 

drawing to a close ...

It was still winter in Kreuzberg .

We\'ve been waiting for spring,

running after hope 

in the mouth of a burning crater ,

when giants took possession of the void...

  Beware ! no more borders ...

Fanny, I knew ,you were only in love

with the chords of rain   

and equivocal  emotions .

Fleeting beauty in the ephemera .

A scorching night in Charlottenburg

a sex pistol put a safety pin 

 on your breast 

and hung the cello in the cupboard ...

 Fanny,I remember ,

 you were improvising 

a fugue for the passing clouds ,

 25 years ago  ...Tragic adagio .

   Fanny,do you have a child ,

playing in the streets of berlin

 or on saturne\'s lunatic moons ?

   Our impromptu ...