brilliance in shadows

sometimes i wish i'd know what to ask

how to let you know

give me the right questions

shall we expect great things

and

hungry, thirsty,

one thing I ask

all tones of glory

all shades of things to come.

[If.]

I don't even want to pretend
you would find out anyway
see how yeah actually yeah
I have no idea
and the dreams that are there
I suddenly just felt so very protective
It was when I wasn't fully sure
if you were being genuine
or would you run after others
Affection
Affliction
So weird
It paralyses my thinking
and my defence rises
Don't want to get hurt
Don't want to get close
But I like what I see
And I like the way you are
And let me be
And share the what I have
Just give me some time
to learn to trust
and to trust my senses
and let down my defences
Learn to live
in this village of the world.

[Invitation Only]

Would you build with me a home
under the waterfall
Where light meets raindrops
turns them to diamonds of all
colours of the spectrum
Would you have with me many sons
sons of thunder
fierce and gentle like the wind
Raise them to go to the ends of the earth
and joyfully grief when they are do.

I smile. If only I would.

To look like a spring day
crowned young like blossoming trees
or the very first winter morning
painted with lace of frost
Not a problem to be solved
but a mystery to be enjoyed
Carrying the scars of lessons learnt
Complicated becomes simple
I am not your answer.
Patchwork of details drawing a match
when you stand only an arms length away.

I smile. If only I would.
Hope.

[Intensité]

When tears came down
I would not look at you
ashamed of hurting
Unpleasantly fragile
Sparkle,
So afraid
of being vulnerable
closing in
So you won't see
on the streams of dreams of
sleepless fields where I walk
Offer the strength
to drink in the beauty
come further in
see the joy.
Tame me.

Lumi

Sweet intoxicating lullaby
shakes me up
wakes me up alive
I want to enter the storehouses of snow 
and see the arsenals of hail
ignite the little flames
stretch the net of golden thread
across the lands
ja jo alkaa hyttyset ja pienet eläimet tanssimaan


chante-moi une chanson
courir avec moi
oh bonheur



[Se suloinen tainnuttava kehtolaulu
herättääkin minut eloon
tahdon käydä paikassa jossa lunta säilytetään
nähdä rakeiden varastot
sytytä pienet liekit tuleen
levitä kultalangat yli maan]

[Dear.]

Aamuruskon peura,
hämärtyvien puiden suojassa
minä odotan
Lukemattomien erkaantuvien askelten otteessa
Idän puolella valot kertovat kodeista
aukenevan kaiun huminan laulu pakenevasta hetkestä
En pelkää pimeää
Kylkiluuton, Tule,
en ole valmis minäkään
kyllä nuo kultaiset linnut ohjaavat
seitsemän valtameren rannoille
merirosvojen aarteille
salaisille saarille
elävän veden lähteille
Tule, juostaan.

[Song for four days]

I was born of laughter
sweet tender dreams
and of a hard labour
of warring seas.
I was raised to believe in seasons
dawn that follows every winter
spring that comes after the darkest hour.

I was born of songs of those
that fly high and free
With ablaze they soar
to paint a scenery yet to be
I was raised to believe in goodness
in everything I see
to go after evil

and rescue those captives
who in their own strength
could not flee.