Augenschein

Tears in silence
And masks on our faces
Distance and space
Separated from our loved ones
We protect them to shield from the
What can live inside us
A matter of solidarity
A matter of us

But no mask protects from the
What lives in our minds
Anger and fear and some madness
In the communication battle
Confused verbal violence
Everyone against everyone
A matter of the inner compass
Actually, not a question at all

One eye laughing, one eye crying
And a heart so heavy with love and pain
This is how we stand in life

We are modern, we are so new
We’re just better
Than all those many stupid people
Who naively lived before us
Not everything new is good for us
Not everything is progress
Language dictation, moral dictation
A template worldview
Thoughts are no longer free
No imagination and no passion

One eye laughing, one eye crying
And a heart so heavy with love and pain
This is how we stand in life
This is how we stand in our lives