carnival

~N.M~

I’ve walked these streets a virtual stage... it seemed to me...
Make up on their faces
Actors took their places next to me...

I’ve walked these streets in a carnival of sights to see...
All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors and the dealers
They crowded around me...

I've walked these streets...
In a spectacle of wealth and poverty...
In the diamond markets, the scarlet welcome carpet
that they just rolled out for me...

I’ve walked these streets
in the mad house asylum they can be...
Where a wild eyed misfit prophet on a traffic island stopped
And he raved of saving me...

Have I been blind?
Have I been lost inside my self and my own mind?
Hypnotized, mesmerized by what my eyes have seen?
Have I been wrong?
Have I been wise to shut my eyes and play along?
Hypnotized, paralyzed, by what my eyes have found...
by what my eyes have seen...
What they have seen?

Have I been blind?
Have I been lost?
Have I been wrong?
Have I been wise?
Have I been strong?
Have I been hypnotized,
mesmerized by what my eyes have found?
In that great street carnival...
In that carnival?

~~ zwei schüsse und noch atmen ~~