We have become emptiness

We have become emptiness.

No one can hold anything – or anyone
within their brackets anymore.

Only each of us can step outside our own bracket,
so as not to cling to the nothingness within,
and so that, in retrospect, nothingness does not press upon us
to the point of utter exhaustion.

For feedback is being born,
and we are in the first steps of this fact –
visible within ourselves, throughout the world, and among us.

The ownership of our faces

We own our lives
in the sweat of our faces —
and this is our one and only torment.

In friendship,
we bestow the ownership of our faces,
and from distance, closeness is born.
In hatred,
we demand the ownership of our faces,
and from closeness, distance is born.

So walk through this world as no one,
and your ownership will wither —
but within you, the foreboding of olive branches
over unimagined horizons.

Do not seek for yourself within yourself

How will you quench your thirst
if you are water and not the one who would drink?
Will you not dry up from thirst
in the middle of water?

How will you be conscious if you are consciousness?
Will not every beggar erase you?

So, do not seek for yourself within yourself,
because since you stepped on earth as a human,
you are no longer there.

Reality dissolves every imitation

Reality dissolves every imitation
and cuts its eternally new pattern
from everything unreal,
so blessed are you unreal,
if you have accepted this fact.

However, the time of your reality
has not yet completely burned out,
but the fires are burning out
and you are only walking in the embers of darkness.

Blessed are you,
if you have only walked in the darkness
within yourself
.