When tragedy befalls you / I react / there’s nothing simpler / I think aim for the fullest possible development to your heart / of every human being ethically responsible to all born and reborn /don’t ask for much / personal and intellectual freedom in this space experience each / individual / precious affirmation and all the time reaching / for vision in between one thing/ the future will last / here within your reach let’s come together.
This is a matter of right / and rights cultivating compassion / compromise in the choice between despair / and hope / don’t let it drag you down in between / one thing / open up your curious critical communicative heart / it will soon be your tomorrow in a time that needs direction.
Forget your past / from within informed conviction take all worry / out of your mind.
For all moral values derived from / human reconciliation desiring and fulfilling / desire when you can’t seem to get enough freely / inquiring I only want trust / this / undogmatic love of mine keeps growing when everyone keeps retreating / I am sitting / committed to possessing dignity / destruction is for a world / community / creation / and not for collaborative science / science /is for creation when / everything feels / all over and not/ the same but not the same destruction / when everyone seems unkind I’ve just two dates / over me / loved / with and without sentimentality applicable to all / human / relationships.
Inquisitive phoenix rising from ashes / release yourself from the heart /and the head / all things real / misery ad infinitum.
Try / today I am / easy to describe you’ll find / this way cooperative / understanding / hearing /and seeing with / all senses / my death lived like mad sitting / at the window my birth passing /more souls than one / a creature not now passing / if / after I die peace from each other / and knowing / pleasures real and imagined / the lovely image and one / more the other / all mine
where you know / seeing it / don’t come easy not knowing / why / the I I am and / the I I am not feeling / affirmed / and in thinking / the invocation / Ponds existing still / broken off / from the sky evoked slow / imagining the I / I know and the I I am / not hearing / time a veil ongoing / becoming / unfolding more ‘I’s than myself / who / investigating / depth and / inviting motion.
Invoked silence / speaking.
— for GA from MvdW, Berlin, August 2018.
A poem of words taken from humanist manifestos, Fernando Pessoa, Ecke Pfümpe, Richard Starkey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Peter Townsend, Leonard Cohen, and Robyn Thomas.