Immer von neuem sterben
und auferstehn
Die Fremde meine Heimat
Unbekannte meine Geschwister
Ich bin eine Tote
die lebt
und das Leben liebt
Rose Ausländer (1901 - 1988)
English:
Dying time after time
and rising again
Foreign parts my home
Strangers my brothers and sisters
I died
and am alive
in love with life
Part of Pollen of Words
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only words
People, when wounded by words,
replay those words endlessly
and down they sink
into themselves.
Wise to remember:
words are only words.
No need to swallow, too,
the feelings that encase them.
Naoki Higashida, Fall down 7 times get up 8, a young man's voice from the silence of autism, p101 (Sceptre 2017), translated by David Mitchell & Keiko Yoshida
replay those words endlessly
and down they sink
into themselves.
Wise to remember:
words are only words.
No need to swallow, too,
the feelings that encase them.
Naoki Higashida, Fall down 7 times get up 8, a young man's voice from the silence of autism, p101 (Sceptre 2017), translated by David Mitchell & Keiko Yoshida
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