To us.

To us.

This is a message to all of you

beautiful people out there,

all I’ve met along the way,

you know very well who you are.

All of you who decided to dream

your own wonderful world,

choosing love ahead of fear,

who were not afraid to drop a tear.

All of you who disbelieved denial

but believed in everything else.

All of you who decided to be free

to live on your own terms

and not those of others.

All of you who fell in love with the light

and decided you wanted to shine,

and shine you did and your beauty was so

that it became contagious, highly infectious.

All of you poets and writers out there,

who still believe in the power of the word,

and every day you dance with it

keeping the eternal flame alight.

To all you intoned musicians

who listened very carefully until you heard

that song that never ends,

and decided to sing it out loud

screaming your love for creation.

To all of you who decided to paint,

for the world was so full of colors

you could not contain yourself

and the brush painted from the deepest

corner of your souls.

To all of you people who knew the world

was still a magical place,

and bravely packed and went away.

To all of us who decided to smile

and every time we did

darkness took a necessary step back.

To my beautiful family in Berlin,

who made of the body a temple,

but understood we are only our souls.

To all those I met in India,

and instantly we shared

chai and conversation,

and our awe for creation.

To all those lovers in whose eyes,

and in whose eyes only,

I still see my clearest self.

To all of those who join me everyday

in shouting a loud and clear, yalah!

which captures all we have to say.

Cause we took our time to understand

the true good in things, and good we are.

Cause all of you have made my world

and God it is joy to see, what my eyes

and my soul every morning feel.

For we decided to dance and not to fight,

how could we not? When the music

that we heard was so divine!

No we are not angry, we are not violent,

we fight in every action and decision

that we make, listening to that voice

that guides us from the insight,

that same voice we all hear

but sounds different in each of our ears.

For we learnt to be real individuals,

we all found that unique and divine light

that only from within us could shine,

and we shared it in every smile,

every tear, every laugh,

every conversation, every look,

every song, every poem…

The future is ours, my friends,

my lovers -don’t we know it?

It can’t be any other way,

cause we are right, and they are wrong,

it only takes common sense to see

that their reign will pass,

but our love will always be.

So let us drink together, all of us,

those I’ve met, those I will meet,

and those out there whom I might never see;

those who were, those who are,

and those who will one day be;

let us fill our cups from the red wine

that the sun spills, as it falls down the west,

let us raise them and proudly say:

To us! To us! To us goddamit!

I love you all.

A.M.B.

March 2013