all the promises we make / Leuchtturm (*) (revisited)

"Ich möchte Leuchtturm sein

in Nacht und Wind –

für Dorsch und Stint –

für jedes Boot –

und bin doch selbst

ein Schiff in Not!“

 

(*) Lighthouse

I 'd like to be a lighthouse

in night and wind--

for smelt and cod--

for every boat--

but yet I am myself

a ship in distress.

 

A piece from the Hamburger Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. Not for the religious reasons, but only for the hopelessly idealistic ideas, and selfless sacrifice.

The poem is from Wolfgang Borchert, a poet, author, playwright from Hamburg, who lived a very short, but prolific life from 1921 to 1947. A man with a giant heart filled with love and compassion, in a fragile body, murdered by the senseless war. A member of the Trümmer Literatur (rubble literature)

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