Have been cleaning my desktop and stumbled upon three poems that i wrote to a girl this summer. I have never written any poems before or since, but she inspired me for as long as it lasted, and so while she was at Roskilde festival, i have directed my unsatisfied lust into a more creative direction. One poem is too personal, one is in Danish, and this one is fairly neutral, though bare in mind that it was addressed to someone, and it might be slightly cryptic:
How lucky we would be to share;
A common way of life with universal truth and joy!
But only fools are unaware,
Of how much good can rigid mind destroy.
You say I'm wrong? You say there's good, and there is bad.
Let's disagree, let's not insist, why should we even bother?
So many different truths since ancient times we've said -
Why can't we hide our pride and humbly tolerate each other?
Though there's a truth I want to guard,
It guides me as a Northern Star in bleak existence,
This single greatest truth is Love -
Sometimes a summer Sun, sometimes a tiny flickering in distance...
Embrace it, take it's warmth and shine,
Don't listen to experience or voice of reason,
Believe it's truths, and trust it's lies -
Some lies a white – they are not sin, but wisdom.
Be careful not to lose your passion and attention,
Neglecting Love can make it shrink in size
Once huge as Sun - it might reverse ascension,
And drop as single diamond from your eyes.
Scored me few points with her - for the effort if nothing else. These days people don't write poems to ladies all that often, especially not when they get older. Lucky to live in a place where many people still appreciate some romance, and it's not all about money and such.
