Dream Journey

I pause in this moment
Stand still and observe,
what moves forward, what perhaps back
Want to hold onto the moment
How you hold me
Try to grasp it, the happiness
And I let myself fall
The happiness caught
By your hand
Try to make clear to myself
What was yesterday and what may be today
How quickly a person can turn my life upside down all at once
How quickly the times change
And we suddenly wander on each other's map
I perceive the moment and make it clear to myself
That from today on everything will be new
A new view of the world
Shows me this image, which my mind holds fast
How easy could life look for us?
Listen carefully, then you will understand

You stroke happiness over my skin
And with every touch my heart cries out loud
For more, more of this happiness
You don't want to tell me, but your gaze betrays it
You don't want to say it, because it might already be too late
Too late to clear the problem out of the way
Too late to keep dreaming
Of a simple world
"It's okay," I want to tell you
"We can do it, because together we can do anything," and you will ask
"But do I always have to know how?"
No, sometimes we never find out
But time brings it back
The happiness you spread on my skin

The world presses from outside, pelts down on me
And only with you can I be at peace
I want to hold onto it, because you give me security
You too find security with me
Yet perhaps I underestimated it
The burden of the other that one still carries
Once one continues life together?
I should not drown
In the flood that a relationship brings with it
I should not fade away and forget myself
Because that resonates in the sound of the word TOGETHER
Still I gasp for air
Sometimes very hectically
Still I keep fighting
Because this fight is so real
You say one must endure tension
That's just part of it
But should that split my heart?
For what reason? What for?

You lie beside me, yet the flood has swept us apart
You lie beside me, yet I cannot see how you feel
"I need space to breathe," you tell me constantly
I think to myself: "I know that, I know you."
But what I will say is: "I'll give you the space you need."
Close your eyes, come.
We breathe together in and out
Imagine…

Sun and moon climb into the midday nest
Cat and mouse hold hands
Human and nature live peacefully under one sky's tent
And somewhere a sprayer paints slogans on the wall.
Sometimes I wish to live in a world
In a world in which everything seems mad and yet easy
Sometimes it would be enough to begin
To begin with one's own desired reality
I dream every night
Yet do not always remember the dream
I risk forgetting it when we look into each other's eyes in the morning
My head is not yet fully ordered
My mind responsive and absent at the same time
Left with the sunbeam that woke me
This perfect, imaginative realm
I look at the day that awaits me,
as it stands before me still unbegun
After this tangled night I want to approach it courageously
Be able to say at the end that I had won it for myself

I paint a reality in my thoughts
Draw with the tip of the thought-thread every detail
Colour with my feelings from the mood
for us a world in which everything is in order
I hold your head gently with my hands
Whisper my idea in your ear
You listen to me intently and let yourself be carried away
Into a world made for us like no other before
Sugar-coloured warmth in front of the house by the lake
And at the end of the street
… you stand and smile at me
Not give a damn about everything once
Take a holiday from everyday life
Do something nice for yourself
Look at the stars at two o'clock in the morning
And trust you even more the next morning
That's what I wish for.
That's what I wish for us.
And at the end of the street you stand …

– And I run towards you.

Tabea Schleier