No connection

No connection, battery empty,
Be my charger, bae!
Yet still lonely, you don’t know it,
Because we aren’t walking on the same way.

Let me inside your world,
Let me gain your trust,
Face what you feel for me,
Is it eternity or just bodily lust?

Climbing to the peak

Colors which are in the mirror unseen,
Sunsets so orange, yellow, blue green,
Through breathlessness where I hike,
In the moon nights’ sweet delight.

Where the fog is getting thicker,
Walking further through the night,
In the dawn the sun is breaking,
Galaxy-like shining light.

Myriads of breathless miles,
Melting in a thirsty might,
Reaching the mountaintop
With smiles.

I don’t want to lose you

Every morning when I wake up,
I know that I have such a luck,
– That you are with me.

But life is dangerous and one hush,
An unattentive moment in a rush,
And nothing would be as it was.

I am so afraid of losing you,
Because you filled me with life.

~~~

Timo Schmitz is a language fanatic, philosopher, journalist, poet, and book author from Germany. He authored poetry books in German, English, and French. His poetry was also featured among others in Luna’s Poetry Bar, I Write Her, The Short of It, and the anthology Social Justice Inks. Schmitz is currently doing his Ph.D. thesis in philosophy. Timo was first featured in 2022, and had his work appear in The Short of It – Volume 2, Reflections & Revelations.

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