We walk by the sea-shore
holding firmly in our hands
the two ends of an antique dialogue
-do you love me?
-I love you

with furrowed eyebrows
I summarize all wisdom
of the two testaments
astrologers prophets
philosophers of the gardens
and cloistered philosophers

and it sounds about like this:
-don-t cry
-be brave
-look how everybody

you pout your lips and say
-you should be a clergyman
and fed up you walk off
nobody loves moralists

what should I say on the shore of
a small dead sea

slowly the water fills
the shapes of feet which have vanished