open your heart

can there be

I wonder

while it is raining

outside not again

after you disappeared

rewind:

can be another poem

as true as every other word

I said before

too many

spoken written

into your hollow universe

you weren’t able

to find them

a million words

always saying the same:

open your heart

basically

can there be

I wonder

while clouds swallow the sun

outside not again

after you disappeared

rewind:

can there be pain

as an answer

a challenge

as true as love

I felt before

too many

every inch of me felt

into your hollow universe

you weren’t able

to find me

a million sentiments

always saying the same:

open your heart

basically

while I ponder thoughts like this

I mean, deep thoughts,

I am diving here,

in the middle of forgetting,

maybe I forgot my oxygen,

maybe I am even drowning,

but with an open heart,

I will be the heroine famous
drowning with an open heart,

I will also be

frying eggs for the girls,

doing the laundry,

going to work,
cooking dinner,

writing a poem,

            no wait a minute: can there be another poem?

washing the dishes,

reading a story to my daughter,

driving my car through city traffic,

taking the underground,
smiling at strangers,

having gin and tonic with a friend,

and in the middle of all this 
I will always be waiting

for you to find us

me and my million words

and I will not close my heart

© Susanne Becker