Love Asleep

I watch you sleep, my love. You sleep so soundly. So deep and calm. Granted shall it be to you after all the efforts you have made. How you hard you tried, how desperately you fought! You gave everything, and nothing ever came back to you. You are exhausted, so deeply exhausted, no longer capable of the slightest movement. Sleep now.

I miss you, my love. As long as you’re asleep I have to live without you. As long as you’re asleep I cannot feel you, cannot be immersed in you, and cannot pass you on. As long as you’re asleep you cannot be the foundation of my actions, not the cause of my hopes, and not the spur for my eternal endeavour. But I apprehend that you must sleep now. You have exhausted yourself completely.

Every now and then we have visitors that I would like to introduce to you, my love. But I do not want to disturb you in your well-deserved sleep. Some of our visitors have tried to wake you with tender kisses. They would have loved to experience you. But they could not make it. Steady goes your breath, and unperturbed. You are alive but you sleep so deeply, so deeply...

Sleep on then, my love. Recuperate and revive. One day, someone will come to visit us who will be able to wake you with a kiss. From far away. From the agleam horizon of the future or the depths of the past. Who knows. You shall awaken, and stronger then ever shall you live and tire no more.

Until then, my love – sleep...


This is the English version of my very favourite text "Liebesschlaf" for all those who keep asking me if there were any of my works available in English. I hope you'll like it! :-)