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Is It Wrong / Ist es irrig (Translated by David Partenheimer)

Is it wrong
To let love start to grow
When there seems no room
For it to bloom?

Would it be better
To harden the heart
And soul indeed
Against the very seed?

Ist es irrig,
zu gestatten, der Liebe anfangen zu waschen
Wenn es scheint, kein Raum dafür zu geben,
Wo sie blühen kann?

Wäre es besser,
Sich das Herz zu verhärten
Und zwar die Seele
Gegen den Samen selbst?

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Ink Dragon

16 years 7 months ago

Hi Rob,

please take a look at your inbox, won't say more before I hear from you. Yours, ~Nina