Mercury Wedding – 63 years of married life – The days leave no trace, just like the rain on the river. Only love!

Meditation and Wedding Prayer

Goddess with the rose mouth, my whole self is a single wound, my heart an apple where love's maggot sits inside and eats it up without mercy. I always knead the dough of your charms in my senses. It rises up as if there were yeast inside. You are blotting paper that drinks my senses, you are a pond in which my heart sinks. Your heart is turned from hard smallpox. You have bewitched my soul to chaff, My stream of tears could erase a fixed star, but you remain cold, as if suckled by frogs.

It can be botanized on your cheeks, because roses and lilies flourish there. And from the red pillow under the lips Cupid threw his arrow at me. Like the snowman the street urchin wove for himself, so the angels wove you from ether. They gave all their beauty to the one that now they themselves seem like black tomcats. And dogs long for the harbour, like ravens croak for carrion, like flea thirsts for blood. For your love I groan so much.

The clocks run faster because of the heat of love, the ice melts in the cellar because of longing, the mosquitoes roar like cows because of the pain of love. Grey-bearded oak trees fall on their knees. If I could keep your love that way, I want to split the earth like cheese, I'll kill the sun with clubs and bring it to you for supper. I crawl out the chimney of the world. I bring you an angel louse. Whacked the moon full of shit and finally went mad with love.

Mercury Wedding

Oh rain, say you come so high, is the day up there also without a trace and empty? You fall to the river and swim to the sea, think you escape from sorrow and seek pleasure? Oh, if only everyone knew what everyone needs to know. The days leave no trace, just like the rain on the river. The love only.