The Gate

'My healed chest wound
Transformed into a gate
Where I receive love from
Where I give love from

And I care for you...

Split into many parts
Splattered light beams into prisms
That will reunite

If you care for me...

Didn't used to be so needy
Just more broken than normal
Proud self-sufficiency
My silhouette is oval
It is a gate

I can care for you'

- The Gate, Björk

Songwriters: Björk Guðmundsdóttir / Alejandro Ghersi

Number the days

All the reasons
To and fro
Hang like mist
Obscuring the view
Of the top

All the seasons
Rise and fall
Sunshine kissed
Opening the way
Through the gate

All the words
Touch and fade
Punchline missed
Asking for grace
Along the way

All the beats
Fast and slow
Sung reminisced
Taking us back
To each day

All the dreams
Black and white
Waking resist
Leading us on
In a daze



Il Dolce Far Niente, Sweet Idleness’

The Illustrator

Tracing pictures, aiming
Tracing details, framing
Looking up, left then right
Drawing down, fine lines
Capturing light

Black and white
Glasses.table.talk
Succulent
Bites.window.wall
Modern art
Wonder.wool.weather
Sun dial
Degrees.world.words

Cross terrain
Into earth
Eyes to sky
Continents

Up mountain
Over ocean
Sigh and cry
Universe

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