BEREKET ESSAYAS

“Everything Means Nothing to Me”

“There's a lover in the story But the story's still the same There's a lullaby for suffering And a paradox to blame But it's written in the scriptures And it's not some idle claim You want it darker We kill the flame”

“You who wish to conquer pain You must learn what makes me kind; The crumbs of love that you offer me They're the crumbs I've left behind Your pain is no credential here It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound”

‘I'm the hitchhiker you recognize passing On your way to some everlasting’

“... And come forth from the cloud of unknowing And kiss the cheek of the moon”

It's an idea, someday In my tears, my dreams Don't you want to see her proof? Life that comes of no harm You and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by

“You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.”

“America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war?”

‘And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I'm glad you stood in my way’

‘I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again’

Slight of hand Jump off the end Into a clear lake No one around Just dragonflies Fantasize No one gets hurt You've done nothing wrong

Goodbye Blue Sky

መልካም አዲስ አመት!!! 🌼Happy new year to all habeshas living around the world 😊🇪🇹

‘Yes is surrender You gotta let it, you gotta let it go’

‘I'll take a quiet life A handshake of carbon monoxide’

‘Everything Means Nothing To Me’