It is here where I bare my soul to the world.  

It is my wish that you will experience a glimpse of all the fascination, love, fear, insecurity, self-pity, passion, frustration, ignorance, wonder and joy that I have had the privilege to call mine in this life. 

I strongly suggest you have a large glass of wine before you continue!

Lourens Breytenbach

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Lourens'Prayer

What a catch

Health

Shameless

My lost loves

but the home is often too far
and the heart
has to give birth on the way

Give me the calmness and the power to love my world, my people, and my life.

Allow me to know who You are in this hour
by touching my flame with your Light tonight
and let me live in a better way, every everlasting moment
of every hour of each day
from now on.

Come to my restless mind and touch my aching heart
so that every thought and feeling that I breathe
my become You in a beautiful, breathless way.

Let every wave of good energy that I encounter
be fully absorbed in my whole being and allow every crumb of life
to be absorbed into Your Truth inside me - the Truth that I long for,
the Truth that You are.

Allow me to strip my light from darkness
and let me fight off the claims of this world
in a way that will please you.

Allow me to rest in the silence and peace
of Your Love tonight,
and tomorrow, God,
launch me again with power into a new day.

Let me fly like a powerful bird over this incomprehensible world
that you created, and let me see your Light forever!

as if into yourself
you escalated out into the thinner blue

you climbed overboard -
you never stopped moving!

you - fish-flesh woman
never will stop fishing,
falling up ... rising down

I cannot touch that thin line of your movement

My sleep is sweet and deep -
I love this bright conscious haze:
a brilliant truth-bright life
beginning afresh in each new moment ...

O, God, I am so healthy,
and my brother is so sick!

It doesn't matter who you love
It doesn't matter what you take
It doesn't matter where you go
Because you are.  You are finally, funnily ...

You !

I don't subscribe to life
I don't subscribe to space
I just love ...
I just want to really love!

I am not ashamed
I am not in love
I am not taking this lying down
I am not free ... not me, not here

Shame on us.  Shame!
... when we lie, betray,
work-rest in the arms of our lives
in the heart of my world!

But I am shameless
I am happy.

down some unleaded cyberfear,
up some just-mopped boulevard
or through some untainted hearts
and back to where we started?

I don't know
but I care

where have you gone
my lovely and honourable heartdrainers?
you that met me, loved me, changed me ...
and discarded me like a headache
or an uncleaned bedroom, or a bird -
unprotected against and invulnerable to
my impossible futures with you?

I don't know if these things matter
but I care

and caring for you
loving and hating every other moment
that dragged past, or rushed!
that was love, life -
happy and flowing me

and when we broke the discs
in our lame-lazy (but proud) backs
and dined in our parents' expectations
we knew
and we cared

where have all my loves gone?
where and when did we lose our sweet hour?
: that place must be moving away ...

and losing you was painful
like birth or marriage
or divorce or war ...

I don't know
but I care ...

about those passions
and pains,
wise laughs and soft or hard looks

into eyes that shone
like crazy Pink Floyd diamonds

and hearts that reeled
with Alanis Morrissette anger and derision!