Oh hero -you have raised form ancient times
from the Middle Ages, and hero legends
where chivalry and knighting
and bloody wars were triumphant.

Once you fought for faith and honour
against gangs, and hords of war.
What became defeated by force,
had to be held in endless struggles.

Cries of jubilation and the echoe of the horn -
but such peace did not last for long.
Your shapes - godlike
were celebrated - realm after realm.

The hair wildly messed up by the wind,
your eyes view into far distance .
Noble courage and loyalty oath,
once adorned your forehead.

Now you stand there again - brave hero,
in the eternal fight with this world.
In rage with the old oaths
which always want to lead you to the combat fields...

The enemy - victory or defeat -
is the mirror at all times - day after day…
Into your own depth you must climb down
to win this final fight.

But this time you lead the battle - noble hero
no swords against this world
a light penetrates deeply from your soul,
your heart sings of flaming love…

The world dipped into this love !
What is it -
what could remain for you from this deceit?

© Regina Franziska Rau
Thursday 29. May 2003
Deggendorf

To be your bride was my only dream.
but it soon vanished like a castle built from foam,
your palace turned to be my golden dungeon..

You where very good-natured, but you never where there
and I became very sad, until I realized -
I began to change myself, to change the times.

I wished to go away into my own country.
but my word had banished me to your side.
There I swore on you secretly at dark night.

From now on the fate took its run,
from the horizon dark clouds wallowed up.
We began to hate, the feeling weighed heavily.

In death again we found life's Dharma
but we where still connected by unsolved karma
which does not know the borders of death..

We met in this new life again,
but the Karma from ancient times held us still down.
We were not free, we where bounded in pain to each other.

We loved each other again, and fell again
the mirror turned in the wheel of fate -
and showed us in detail our age-old drama.

I saw the face of true, heavenly love
which would only remain without worldly ties,
and so I untied from you in a long lasting farewell.

I saw our healing by means of forgiving -
which prepared the path of love and a free life for us
and so I separated in a long parting from you.

Now they are here again - the poems and the songs from ancient times.
I write them all down for you -
I remember again and dance again -
now to give thanks to the Heaven…

© Regina Franziska Rau
08. February 2003
Deggendorf - Bavarian Forest