Wedge Songtext
von Sow

The day went by like all the other days
Stale
Heavy
Moistened with grief
Same old story relived with every wet pearl
As it rolled down a cheek from her lids and then slid on her lips

And a murmer
Perhaps a mumble
But not enough breath nor twitch of the tongue to achieve speech
Just a muttering stifled by the silence of a stunned mind
How long had it been?

Thoughts burst forth screeching to a halt
Everything stopped
Wasn′t that how it all started?
The big bad blow

The axe that splits
Wedged into its stump

He's in love with -
I won′t recognize it because it is not my name


The goodbye is civil
Sharing of goods neatly packed, parceled and boxed
By yet still hopeful hands
There are no tears, no sorrys, no see you arounds

Straining resistance
To track downwards
And take in the entire dissolving figure
Once revered naked too many times

The vanishing

All but her flesh and bones disappeared into thick mirky air
Save a small section of her brain
The appropriate segment which pumps limbs with commands
Such as turn light on
Turn light off
Get out of bed
Go shopping
Buy food
Eat
Do not drink when not in merry mood
Try to sleep
Do not attempt to think

There is no logic in love
Only in the lack of it


The following day after months of rain
The stars turned green again
To some children throwing sticks and stones, she said
Don't do that to my dog
He is young and knows nothing of the world
His heart is kind and untainted
He cannot bite
But I can

The kids ran away laughing
So did she