Young Alan

Young Alan had a question
no one dared to answer.

Not his grandmother
not his teacher
not his freinds
even the wise man
down the block
didn't dare.

Because young Alan had a question
no one dared to ask.

Imagine Climbing a Tower.

Imagine climbing a tower
with a telescope on its roof.

Imagine the corridors you'll pass
the people you'll meet
the rooms you'll stop by
along the way.
Imagine the glimpses
you'll get,
imagine the things
you'll overhear.

Imagime climbing a tower
with a telescope on its roof.

Beautiful שיין

איך האב געזעהן מיידלעך

.שיין ווי בלומען אין א זוניגע טאג

.אבער איך בין געבליבען שטיין

איך האב געזעהן מיידלעך

.שיין ווי א בויגען נאך רעגען

.אבער איך בין געבליבען שטיין

דערנאך האב איך געזעהן א מיידעל

שיין ווי דער אייביגער גאט

אין איך בין געלאפען

אין געלאפען

.אין איך בין נאך דארט

(translation)
I have seen girls
beautiful as flowers in a sunny day
bit I stood still.
I have seen girls
beautiful as a rainbow after rain
but I stood still.
Then I saw a girl
beautiful as the eternal God
and I ran
and ran
and I am still there.

Future

My future is

my greatest motivation.

After all, it's my presents 

destination.

The mist around it 

gives my life breath.

Yet that very mist

scares me to death.

It's a time

I enjoy visualizing.

Yet the thought of it 

can sometimes be agonizing.

Yet, I must

face the reality.

That the future is nothing

but uncertainty.

Dreaming about it 

doesn't change it in any way.

Yet the dream of the tomorrow,

is an inevitable part of the today.

(8/01/07) 

They

How many things I didn't do,

for they might see.

Throughout my life,

they has tortured me.

Whenever they was near

we had to start running.

We always feared

they was coming.

Men, women, and children,

they tortured us all.

Throughout history,

they watched our downfall.

They has made our lives miserable

without guilt.

In every war look how many people

they killed.

There is just one question I'd like to ask 

if I may.

Who is this all time 

evil Mr. They?

(7/22/06)

Warmer World

There is a boy in a dorm

that slipped through the guards

a picture of a naked girl.

Everyday he looks at her

and his body is warmed

he looks at her eyes

and dreams

of a world better than the one he knows

Miles away in a tall building

inside a gadget filled room

a naked girl holds a camera.

Behind the lens 

she imagines

a pair of eyes

that warm her body and soul

warmer than the world she knows.

If only we can take away the miles

the loneliness

the guards

the two would be making love to each other

staring in to each other's eyes.

And would come to know a world

better and warmer

than their present lives.   

Color

The color of sunset,

creating that beautiful sight.

And the sound of the songbird,

singing at the dawn of the night.

Your color and sound

appear to be so deceiving.

As we reveal

the horrors you are concealing.

With all the pain, tragedy,

and all the sorrow.

How can song and color

represent the tomorrow?

Over the span of our life

we begin to realize.

That in the tomorrow,

only hope lies.

At a close look, the tomorrows

are represented as they belong.

That confusion and mixture of color,

that quiet broken song.

(7/11/06)

Song

I once wrote a song,

you know, about my life an' all.

A nice and complicated song,

like the ones you sing in a big hall.

I included my whole life,

in that special song.

I wanted people to hear me, 

loud and strong.

But somehow

that never occurred.

For some reason

my song wasn't heard.

Even for those 

who tried hard to hear.

My song

came across scrappy and unclear.

My song got stories

you won't find anywhere.

It's a song, you got to be me to write,

you got to be me to hear.

(12/18/07)

Paradise

From the first paradise on,

where man and women came to be.

There was always the serpent,

lurking behind the tree.

Yet every time we left,

to experience a paradise anew.

It was destroyed by the snake,

who came along too.

We cannot convince it to do wrong,

so it should have to leave the meadow.

For the one who convinces,

also has to go.

From paradise to paradise,

with a snake along the way.

Man and woman

search for a paradise to stay.

Along the way,

a different paradise did suffice.

And the snake itself,

became the paradise.

(7/26/06) 

Nowhere

Man, have you ever heard

of a place called Nowhere?

It's a wonderful place,

I think you should go there.

It is beautiful 

not a place you can't go to from there.

I love that place Nowhere,

it kinda takes you anywhere.

But, young man, be careful,

Don't stay there for long.

This place called Nowhere,

is no place to belong.

Keep your eyes open

and look around.

Nowhere,

has a dissolving ground.

From Nowhere you can take any road

except for one.

It's the road back,

that's forever gone.

It's a weird thing,

this place called Nowhere.

If you understand this paradox,

you are already kinda there.

(10/26/07)