Wenn die Uhren so nah
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wenn die Uhren so nah
wie im eigenen Herzen schlagen,
und die Dinge mit zagen
Stimmen sich fragen:
Bist du da? - :
Dann bin ich nicht der, der am Morgen erwacht,
einen Namen schenkt mir die Nacht,
den keiner, den ich am Tage sprach,
ohne tiefes Fürchten erführe -
Jede Türe
in mir gibt nach...
Und da weiß ich, das nichts vergeht,
keine Geste und kein Gebet
(dazu sind die Dinge zu schwer) -
meine ganze Kindheit steht
immer um mich her.
Niemals bin ich allein.
Viele, die vor mir lebten
und fort von mir strebten,
webten,
webten
an meinem Sein.
Und setz ich mich zu dir her
und sage dir leise: Ich litt -
hörst du?
Wer weiß wer
murmelt es mit.
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When the clocks strike as close
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
When the clocks strike as close
as if they were within your own heart,
and with hesitant voices
things ask each other:
Are you there? - :
Then I am not he who awoke in the morning,
the night had given me the gift of a name,
[a name] that no one with whom I spoke during the day
would learn without a profound fear --
Every door
within me yields . . .
And then I know, that nothing passes away,
no gesture and no prayer
(these things are too weighty for that) -
my entire childhood stands
about me always.
Never am I alone.
Many who lived before me
and strove to leave me,
wove,
wove
at my being.
And I sit down beside you
and quietly say to you: I suffered -
do you hear?
Who knows who
murmurs along with me.
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Translated titles:
Wenn die Uhren so nah wie eigenen Herzen schlagen" = "When the clocks strike as closely as if they were within your own heart"
"Wenn die Uhren so nah" = When the clocks as closely
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