Prayer and Meditation

If we are reproached for loving one another, we must not grieve; reproach is of no power. That may apply to other things. No disapproval, no scolding makes love blameless. Shall I call you a summer day, you that outshines it in glory? Storm doesn't want to begrudge May the splendor of flowers, and Summer's reign is so narrowly limited.

Fire colors often shine in his gaze, but soon the golden luster stops, until his very last traces died in change and natural course. But the summer should never part you, the time is far away that beauty spoils you. Death's greedy gaze knows how to avoid you. The word of wine prevents your being from dying. As long as ears hear, eyes see, my song exists, you will exist in song!

Traditional Wedding

When I'm dead, my love, don't sing funeral masses. Don't plant roses or shady cypresses over my head. Let green grass cover me that wets dew and rain. And if you want, remember, and if you want, forget. I don't see the shadows, don't feel the rain falling. Do not hear the melancholic song of the nightingale. And dreaming long in the twilight that never rises or falls, who knows if I'll remember, if I'll forget the world.

All the skippers came back, Kay didn't come. Meike threw herself down on the ground, her face in the sand. She cried and wrung her white arms. Kay, come on, Kay! She begged and cursed that God have mercy. Kay, come on, Kay! A ship ran ashore on a black wave at night, and her dead companion came and took her by the hand. She felt it in her toes and in her blond hair. and Meike had to go and sail with him forever.