At night I lie awake and dream
It is a sunlit space
White walls, beige curtains flatter in the wind
No shadow on your face
I lay my head upon your knees
And you start stroking it,
Humming familiar tunes
You used to sing to me
When I was little and the air
Is filled with your perfume
My mother,
You look so graceful, so divine
You say something reproachful
Then you smile
I hear the water rush upon the beach
Somewhere so far away and yet so near
I hear… you call me by my name
I hear your voice so clearly it’s insane
My mother.
There is a library, so very vast
The galaxy would fit inside a single shelf
And last forever
And everything is filled with books
And cigarillo smoke
I sit with you, you’re reading something
Or we simply talk
And you’re the smartest man I know
Your words fill in the blanks
That life has left more me to solve
That, what I fight against
My father,
Your hands are big enough to fit
My sorrow and my tears
You contemplate about the world
And take away my fears
And everything seems strangely fine
Even if for a sigh
You, the safe haven of my life
My father, big and kind.
There is a terrace, filled with green
The sun has not yet set
Your hair, it flatters in the wind
You wear a white, long dress
Your fingers dance upon the keys
The wind carries the tunes
You close your eyes and smile about
One of Chopin’s Noctures
And I cannot contain the warmth
That rises in my chest
You are almost sublime, I wish
You’ll never pay for that
My sister,
Delightful in a mystic way,
Unreasonably kind
Your beauty lies in what’s beyond
The outside or inside
You laugh and it’s the start of spring
Ask anyone you’ve met
You are almost sublime, I wish
You’ll never pay for that
My sister.
It’s getting dark and silence falls
Apart from where you are,
You’re laying in your bed at night
Reading about the stars
I lay with you and we exchange
Our pains and our thoughts
Trail of into the morning
And then we laugh a lot
My brother,
Your heart is worth so much
It’s big and it is kind
There is no map to lead a traveler
Through mazes of your mind
My brother.
The scenery fades into black
And I awake alone
There is no green, no curtain rush
The moon is fully grown
My heart explodes from all the love
That’s flooding overboard
It’s ripping all the walls apart
That I built to support
Myself in times
when I feel so left out,
When you are nowhere near
But still as long as these lines run
You love and live in here.
