It’s always hard to choose what I love more: poetry or music. Truth be told, sometimes I listen to music just because of the lyrics. I keep a song on repeat for months for a particular verse. I can listen to a 10-minute song just for that single word which makes me tremble with emotion.
Maybe this is why I simply adore Asaf Avidan: he is the perfect mix between music and poetry. His songs are poems in motion. I have seen him twice in live concerts, I know all his songs by heart and I follow everything he does in the artistic field. I am a fan of his original way of looking, singing, being. Probably one of my favorite human beings I have never met in person, but I have always felt close to.
I am among those who pre-ordered his first poetry book & probably one of the first Romanian people who actually own it. I have read it singing the verses in my head, with the Spotify turned on, reminiscing about the moments when I had those songs playing in the background or about the person(s) with whom I was at that time. Asaf’s poetry & music help me to forgive much easily, to love more intensely, to regret more peacefully. And this is what art does: it makes us more human.
Love is wave
around our bodies
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And who was I to dare
to love you or to interfere
with all the scars that you declared
across your lips
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you’ll finally sing
but I won’t be there to hear your call
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she said “Don’t you think to fall is just to study?”
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You, my friend
have nothing to fear, my friend
You have nothing to fear, my friend
except for love
***
There are still shadows all over my skin
in the place your body used to fit in
***
She’s just a small girl
but she’s a world to me
***
what’s the use of falling
if every lesson learned
is that every breath that I inhake
without you is a stone unturned
***
Spend away your years through fears
and let it all fly
***
And if love is not the key. If love is not a key
I hope that I can find a place where it can be
***
I know that in your heart there us an answer to a question
Which I’m not, as yet, aware that I have asked
***
If I threw my broken body
let it shatter on the rocks
would you pick up all my imperfections
keep them hidden in your jewellery box?
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and I’ll see you when I am born into your world
again
***
The waves will tear my battered arms
but in my heart the water is calm
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“To Love Another” | Asaf Avidan | 2020 |
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