Strangers in Paradise

Dieses Gedicht ist aus der Comicserie "Strangers in Paradise" von Terry Moore. Für mich ist es eines der schönsten Gedichte überhaupt. Die deutsche Version habe ich leider gerade nicht parat. Aber das Original ist natürlich schöner:

Strangers in Paradise

Scribbled and scratching

Half finished pages at dawn

People that live here are wondering

Where all their strength's gone.

Moments of splendor

Wind up like ashes in rain,

One look you're smiling,

Another your face is in pain.

I wake up at night

with the sweat on my head.

A look in your eyes

that will haunt me til dead.

I just can't seem to shake it,

Something about what you said;

How love's like an orphan,

A motherless child gone unfed.

So we laugh with the joker,

Hold back the tears til they're gone.

Drink and be merry

They'll find us all dead men at dawn.

We're so far away

From wherever we came

That sometimes I wonder

We'll see it again

It's true, what they say...

You can't always go home,

You can't always be warm inside.

That, in love, we're like orphans,

Strangers in paradise.