moving lyric die elfte: Uncertainty

„Uncertainty“ ist ein Gedicht des Polen Adam Mickiewicz. Das Gedicht des wichtigsten polnischen Autors der Romantik handelt von der Unsicherheit in der Beziehung zu einem Menschen.

Diese Unsicherheit soll durch die Aufnahmetechnik in Einzelbildern noch hervorgehoben werden.

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While I don’t see you, I don’t shed a tear
I never lose my senses when you’re near,
But, with our meetings few and far between
There’s something missing, waiting to be seen.
5 Is there a name for what I’m thinking of?
Are we just friends? Or should I call this love?

As soon as we have said our last good-byes,
Your image never floats before my eyes;
But more than once, when you have been long gone,
10 I seemed to feel your presence linger on.
I wonder then what I’ve been thinking of.
Are we just friends? Or should I call this love?

When I’m downcast, I never seek relief
By pouring out my heart in tales of grief;
15 Yet, as I wander aimlessly, once more
I somehow end up knocking at your door;
What brought me here? What am I thinking of?
Are we just friends? Or should I call this love?

I’d give my life to keep you sound and well,
20 To make you smile, I would descend to hell;
But though I’d climb the mountains, swim the seas
I do not look to be your health and peace:
Again I ask, what am I thinking of?
Are we just friends? or should I call this love?

25 And when you place your hand upon my palm,
I am enveloped in a blissful calm,
Prefiguring some final, gentle rest;
But still my heart beats loudly in my breast
As if to ask: what are you thinking of?
30 Are you two friends? or will you call this love?

Not bardic spirit seized my mortal tongue
When I thought of you and composed this song;
But still, I can’t help wondering sometimes:
Where did these notions come from, and these rhymes?
35 In heaven’s name, what I was dreaming of?
And what had inspired me? Friendship or love?

Weitere Informationen und videos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz

http://www.culture.pl/de/culture/artykuly/os_mickiewicz_adam

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