From the cycle "Is hope the sister of fear"
Based on the poetry of Franka Lechner and music by Rainer Bischof
 
forgotten years
weigh heavy
or light
the thin ice
of the present
carries
or does not carry
underneath
the ocean
of the lived
the ice flowers
of memory
in the window
of the day
precious
and changeable
in the warm breath
of life
 
poetry by franka lechner