THE CURTAIN
bamboo # 18 - anis
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the one side - on the other side - the curtain - they meet in the
middle -- no one kept the secret - when the fire came - with the
heat - like ants they were running - no one escaped - it was burning
heavily - in the eyes - great was the fear - hastily they took -
the bracelets - and necklaces - and cast it into the flames - look!
- with big eyes - refusing - to enter their houses again -- the
united banner - ashes on the ground - no drug strong enough - to
forget - what for once was seen - speechless - common grave - in
a field of rape -- no word - strong enough - for explanation - the
past and the future - the curtain - burnt in the present - eternal
present - like ants they were -- time is a ball - each point - in
the same distance - to the center - in all directions - time - is
a ball -- desire and grief - separated by the curtain - the one
curtain - the united banner - pleasure and pain - success and failure
- all in one - when the curtain burnt - the secret was no longer
secret - new was the flame - eternally new -- the new and the old
- the small and the big - inside and outside - all was one - without
the curtain - it caught fire - on a hot day - and was seen no more
-- in the eyes - the burning - no language strong enough - looks
outside - looks inside - no difference - everything flows - everything
is the center of the ball - everything is the center of the ball
-- the fast and the slow - the light and the heavy - it flows in
one - the secret - the open and the closed - they became one - on
the day - when the fire burnt - on the day of the curtain -- he
who had eyes - to see - closed them - not to burn - the hearts -
pump blood - into the organs - fast blood - poisoned blood - in
a field of rape -- memory and presentiment - learning and forgetting
- all in one - no language - they wanted to hide - in the public
- and were touched - they thawed - from their rigor -- two thousand
years - a diamond - fulminated to carbon - in the ether - world
and world - all one - nothing remained - energy and matter - only
a thin curtain -- the veiled - in the field of rape - they said:
- we're standing in an olive grove - their words - they were broken
- in the fire - many laughed - in the fire - the first and the last
- it does not matter -- the secret - it reads - i am he - as you are he - as you are me - and
we are all - together - two thousand years - on the one side
- two thousand years - on the other side - no difference - repetition's
alive - repetition's alive - everything was new - everything is
new - in the center -- world and world - there always were - the
first things - whenever a self - withdrew - from power - when it
was ruled - by the other - a first thing arose -- the self and the
other - no other other - the self and the other - in order to live
in harmony - the self obeys - because the other - does not obey
- when the self obeyed - the curtain was torn - and it was torn
apart - the fire - spread out - on the same day - any day - all
is one - time is a ball - the conscious and the unconscious - they
complete each other -- the self and the other - create laws - creating
laws - abolishing laws - torn are the words - their meanings lost
have the words - all together
-- a single - fractal - fragment - emotion and ratio - heart and
head - burnt is the curtain - naked is man - on the day of the fire
-- they wanted to forget - and they did not forget - reward and
punishment - heaven and hell - in motion - no one escaped - on the
day of the curtain -- when they were rewarded - they laughed - always
they laughed - until they saw the other - on the day - when the
self saw he other - with ease - no one escaped - when the unconscious
- met the conscious -- they were friends - they hated each other
- the trace of the axe - was still showing - at the place - where
the wall fell - they besmirched themselves - of fear - the sun was
shining - it was shining evermore - a day - like all days -- audacity
and indifference - one thing like the other - the law - behind the
words - a child in the ruins - in eternity -- peace and force -
two ways to one aim - all is one - in the cosmos - existance is
the one thing - behind the words -- excess and asceticism - they
meet halfway -- the law reads: - the self and the other - are one
- this is all - this is all - all is all - in the small and in the
big - because it shows - in the deep and in the shallow -- the humans
- here and there - they suffered from pain - they were discontented
- then they caused pain - on the day of the curtain - they cast
their jewelry - far away from them -- no! - they said - no! - i!
- they said - i! - but there was no i - it was the day - when the
curtain fell -- life and death - everywhere the same is the sky
- the soft and the hard - two thousand years - plus and minus -
the words are empty - without life - it is life that counts - that
is no secret - everybody knows it -- time - laughter - death - no
self - nothing - everything and now!
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