Prayer and Meditation

I was on a night like no other. There you came, my beloved face. You turned such a night into a lovely day. You sang music and poured me a cup and spoke the words. Which I never forgot, with a primordial breath so sacred that this bad night passed like smoke.

Whoever invented divorce didn't think of love. Otherwise he would have spent the most beautiful hours in love. My eyes are full of tears and my heart is swimming in blood. I can never forget you because you were so good to me. If I could speak to you again, if I could see you again, you, my dearest, would certainly never leave me.

If I had ink, if I had a pen, if I had time and writing paper, I would write down the time that you were not with me. Dear, you have taught me, you are now teaching me, what suffering is, and yet I can't believe that the time of happiness is over now, so let's part without greeting and pressing hands, because it has left us both our love turned away.

Wedding in Seeland

All urging, all surging, all longing without rest, everything, everything has lied, and I and you are disappointed. Farewell, you false youth, farewell. you false heart First you were my everything, now you are all my pain.

If you ever find someone else in a foreign country who loves you, don't tell her anything about my heart, just tell her you know me. Once you stand at my grave, cover me with cool earth, think what I have suffered, grant me eternal rest. There is no question about what he loves.

Triumphant and comfortable, it captures his soul and commands: So be it. Where this has happened, never seek to proceed in a contradictory manner, since the highest power has already decided in the mind. Leave love undisturbed in her bowers, leave faith, which, if you measure it correctly, is also pure love.