Outside the shelter of the fold
On the shoulders of Fausts
and of Devils
Here
there is no escaping
the others
Kategori: Poesi
12
Once up against the sky
with a wind
Like in a confused migration
on the hills of a million people
We walk into our separate sleep
11
This is the sanctuary
All of these things
felt by me
Its thousand million gates
stretching into infinity
My inward essence
moves my lips for me
And I am waiting
10
Being beyond the ledges of the concrete
the obvious
With unreality
drifting in
From the roots of a lost breath
that tells me all I know
Nobody really believes me
It is strange
9
Off into matter
Whatever’s at hand
A Judge, a lawyer, a witness
its never enough
I can do nothing but pray
that I could melt the darkness
Without my skin
8
Another day is breaking
so quietly intense
Up, up into the sun
Like father, like son
i come to greet you
in disobedience
7
I am my own to me
Using up the darkness
in the mirrors of this room
Yea, I am one with all I see
in this
Do you agree?
I can hear the bright bee hum outside the window
6
Drifting out upon my dreams,
on a blade of reason
The light, the shade, the flowers
both young and very old
What do you have for me this morning?
5
I enter’d, from the clearer light
Leaving right and wrong
upon that element of truth and worth
A still small voice spake unto me
I am waiting
4
It is difficult to say where
Two roads diverged
You must have seen them
I follow, I fade away
their leaves are left here on the ground
3
A road from earth to sky
overtops the trees and bridges
the inner dome from earth awhile
an innocense,
more perfect made an opening in me
2
The wind before morning dawns
like time itself in my heart, together
How shall I answer their questions,
when the sun is warming
1
Morning frost on birch and grass
icing holding tight
Once again true perception opens up, awakens me
Trekways of the wind
If i had known
that I am I and belong to a people
I would not have known
that you are you
and that the world has many peoples
– Nils-Aslak Valkeapää