Lorenz

Urban solitude

I  carry within me the fading image of a city I never known .

I wrote it in feverish lines begging for another life.

 Memory wanders on the rain square ...

 Perhaps to hide the rustly tears of the old king statue ?

 I haven\'t  it  yet invented a geography where death 

didn\'t know my  adress to come .

  Sometimes it knocks  at my door  with a bouquet 

of wilted flowers ...

  I am nothing more than a chapter of the past 

in the making .

  So it leaves me a \'\' Came by \" note 

and goes off to stir up the neighbor\'s  regrets ...

It\'s a city where even the echo of silence dreams...

 Slender black birds dressed up for sunday ,

fly over the wide boulevards 

and sometimes stop at the last known adress...

I\'m telling you about a city where people 

politely greet the walls ...

We can\'t bring mummies back to  life ,

they\'re doomed to be late forever .

  I don\'t carry the burden of lost loves 

that I once believed in ...

  On the street of  tormented souls ,no expiation .

Urban  vagabond asks the hour for absolution.

  I am going home where the clock made my potion.

  I know how  it\'s slowly poisoning me...

   I am crazy about the taste of this green fairy .

Cats roam  the hidden side of the night .

  At the adress where I don\'t live yet ,

 who\'s knocking at my door so late ?