Verses for Ahasver

These words are for Ahasver – the Wandering Jew…. Cursed by Jesus on His way to Crucifixion, he is doomed to immortality till the Second Coming….. To this date this eternal conqueror of faith, hope, love, and all that bloody jazz that gets poured into our mortal soul every living moment, rambles on…. Death lies vanquished at his dusty ragged boot-heels…. Or at least let’s imagine all these things for the time being…. Let’s just give a resounding kick up the backside of philosophy and theology and take a stroll along those dusty tracts of hopelessness side by side with this faithless savant of immortality….. Just a little break from the chain, that’ll suffice…… Happy Journey !

Heart, play in silence...

The sick poet sought the skies

And the tired singer bought paradise

Hence play in silence, heart,

Play in silence…..

Verses were written for the child who died

Songs were sung for the clown who sighed

Hence, play in silence…..

Prayers adorn the serpents’ skin

The streets of Sodom were kept clean

The pigeons cooed with the morning star

I dream of soldiers who fall in war

Chairs and stairs, they lie in pairs

The clock has stopped, though nobody cares

Sons and sinners – they carried the cross

Long dead flesh – covered with moss

As gypsy ladies stared across

The sky that smells of profit and loss

The sun keeps setting on lizards’ eyes

The Son of Man shall never rise

Flowers to bloom and rivers to flow

I’ll sleep awhile and then I’ll go

As the sea smells of semen and dust

Live we shall, for live we must

He talked to the storm, it told him to wait

Inside churches one dare not masturbate

Rain on rooftops – the same old rhyme

Bread with butter, vodka with lime

The moon had blocked my way to the stars

I took out my knife, I gave her those scars

And that’s the way all cookies crumble

The sky so proud, the stomach so humble

I need those pangs of hope and joy

Freedom and sex – eternity ahoy !

And hence these words and hence this song

Move along, move along….

Heart, play in silence, I plead to you

But don’t stop playing, my faith is new….

But what shall you play?

There’s nothing left to say….

Whatever, I don’t give a damn

Play it, play it again Sam !

The blood that flowed, the veins that throbbed

The rivers that glowed, the loner who sobbed

The child who smiled, the lovers who kissed

The nights so wild, the flame that hissed

Play all these, heart, I beg to thee

Play in silence, make love to me

For there are treasures I’m yet to see

Hence tie me down, but set me free....