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Musings

Thoughts, musings, and everything in between by John Patrick Therrien

Poem

Trip-Tea-Chron

Vergangen:

Vergangen ist es nicht
Wir haben doch gelesen
Wir tragen sie in der Gewesenheit
An sich ist sie Vorhanden
Aber auch “das Man”
Wurde einst von Es gegeben
Welches Mal – im zeitlichkeitigen Urknall –
Ist nicht zu erleben
Doch der unterschied
Zwischen es und sie
Lebt in diesem Lied

Warten:

Worauf wartest du?
Bis du umgeben bist?
Mit jetzt–
Nun, lehnst du gegen die Gegenwart
Umgebung gegeben als Hebung
Von innen dieselbe Segnung
Sehnen sägt Verzweigung
Ohne lehnen, Verneigung
Fällt man auseinander
Fort gepflanzt
Wird der Boden beisammen gewoben

Zu:

Es geht nur zu
Wenn du Du bist
Komplett kaputt knackiger Knall
Künftig Weltall

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