Zutiefst ... [English translation]

When we came to say goodbye,

You cried an ocean

that hungrily devoured us immediately.

Soon the light faded, the sound vanished.

I do not know if you thought of me,

Waking up every now and then at night,

Whether you always fell asleep alone,

But not alone,

From then on I have always been deeply

Yours.

Deeply hurt.

Deeply shocked.

So strongly connected, and yet alone.

Deeply related.

Deeply spellbound.

So very burned, but without a glow.

Deeply moved,

Deeply excited

And a self-imposed yoke,

Deeply distraught

And unprecedented.

Deeply devoted. Still.

Down here, the gray sand ran

No longer so fast through my hand.

But relentlessly, grain after grain,

What was understood, was lost.

And at night, on a cushion of fragmented seashells

The tears are carried away,

When you ran over my grave,

Without bones,

I always remain deeply

Yours.

Deeply hurt.

Deeply shocked.

So strongly connected, and yet alone.

Deeply related.

Deeply spellbound.

So very burned, but without a glow.

Deeply moved,

Deeply excited

And a self-imposed yoke,

Deeply distraught

And unprecedented.

Deeply devoted. Still.

Down here, I thought I was relatively safe and almost certainly

Unequaled, and nobody came looking for me or called for me.

Silently ink floated away like smoke, the characters became whimsical.

Softened in salt water, the stationery disappeared.

Oh, deeply!

Oh, deeply!

The threads from the dead wood, finally freed from their burden,

Floated insubstantially with the currents, sluggish and lazy.

Still reminiscent of existence, of great burden and dignity,

They lived, and now await at most a reflex-driven mouth.

Are lights at the end of this tunnel, as hoped?

Anglerfish remain motionless there at the anti-firmament.

The lights have captivated me for a long time,

trapped stronger than papier-mâché,

But ink flows from the belly onto

the equally black parchment.

Oh, deeply!

Oh, deeply!

Oh, deeply!

Oh, deeply!

With an old fishbone-comb

I furrowed the cold mud

searching for something living, which disintegrated quickly

But no longer contained life.

Only the silence still spoke volumes.

Even as you, from the other end

The world, called softly to me

As a lifeline,

I stayed away from you, yet I remain deeply

Yours.

Deeply hurt.

Deeply shocked.

So strongly connected, and yet alone.

Deeply related.

Deeply spellbound.

So very burned, but without a glow.

Deeply moved,

Deeply excited

And a self-imposed yoke,

Deeply distraught

And unprecedented.

Deeply devoted. Still.

Deeply hurt.

Deeply shocked.

So strongly connected, and yet alone.

Deeply related.

Deeply spellbound.

So very burned, but without a glow.

Deeply moved,

Deeply excited

And a self-imposed yoke,

Deeply distraught

And unprecedented.

Deeply devoted. Still.