Wings

Frittenbude

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Wings

It’s like being at the top

and falling to the bottom. ¹

It’s unhappy everywhere,

everywhere and happy.

It’s like destroying everything seven times

and piecing it back together.

Being against something

and fucking it together.

It’s much better forever.

It’s lasted, but thinner.

It’s stunted and shimmers,

therefore it’s nurtured.

But within seconds

it’s simultaneously far away,

done, and over with. ²

It flickers too far away.

Reaching for it’s no longer possible.

It disappeared so quickly.

When is it coming back?

When can it come back?

We are the clowns

in the circus of life

All the dreams, a tent

and the animal tamers, prophets.

High on ourselves ³

on this blue planet,

every escape remains contained, ⁴

every club is the ring.

It’s like being at the bottom

and soaring to the top

It’s gone and usually

unbalanced like times of suffering.

And are picked up like violins

for this one moment,

to inconsistently jump up ⁵

and to consistently overdo

things excessively. ⁶

Similar to the footbridges,

which we ran across.

When we were so out of it

and so much off the mark. ⁷

Incapable

of living our lives.

But so far away

from giving ourselves up.

There was never an “against,”

just our private misery.

And it brought us back to happiness,

brought us back to ourselves.

We are the clowns

in the circus of life.

All the dreams, a tent

and the animal tamers, prophets.

High on ourselves

on this blue planet,

every escape remains contained,

every club is the ring.

From trapeze to trapeze,

every tightrope’s a joke.

The applause is for nothing

and when you stumble and fall

to the ground during this balancing act,

the fall is without a net,

the success, just juggling;

and every somersault, a fake.⁸

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brightswan

submitted on 12 Май 2012 - 15:13

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¹ nach unten zu fliegen = ugs. falling to the bottom. Straight translation: und nach unten zu fliegen = and to fly to the bottom.
² Straight translation: entfernt, vorbei und verschwunden = far away, over, and vanished (gone). “Done and over with” means there’s nothing more to see because (in this sense) it’s gone.
³ Straight translation: Besoffen an uns selbst = drunk (from/on) ourselves. “High on ourselves” is a more common expression in English.
⁴ Straight translation: bleibt jede Flucht ein Gehege
Every escape remains a (compound/corral/pen/run). The meaning: they cannot escape their enclosure, their (circus) ring.
⁵ aufzupogen: this is a reference to the “pogo” dance, which is performed by keeping your body rigid while jumping up and down like a pogo stick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(dance)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogen
⁶ den Bogen überspannen = idiom: to overdo things, to stretch it/things, to overstep the mark. Straight translation: und konsequent auch den Bogen
maßlos zu überspannen = to consistently overstretch the bow without limits.
http://www.dict.cc/?s=%C3%BCberspannen
eine Sache übertreiben:
http://de.thefreedictionary.com/bogen
⁷ daneben = ugs. daneben sein = to be “off,” to be out of order (a person).
⁸ Somersault = summersault in the air.