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To My Neighbor

I lift you higher,
lift you out
of your body cells
stuffed with anxiety
of your past -
an evil load that smells.

I'll fill each cell
with love and joy
that makes the
angels dance.
You'll glide through earthly
filth and stench -
a spiritual trance.

From your youth filled eyes,
your hands
and feet,
a holy peace shall flow,
so you and I
be filled with grace -
let us be still
and know.

William Hermanns
[P527]

Seelentränen

Seelentränen sind Gedichte,
rot mit Herzblut aufgeschrieben,
tiefem Menschenleid zum Ruhm,

Lies sie still in reinem Lichte,
unbeschattet,
frei von Trieben:
Du betrittst ein Heiligtum.

Wilhelm Hermanns
[G001]

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Poem of William Hermanns

P388

           Elsa Brändström - 2

Why do you drape your Swedish hair
of shining gold in a Red Cross veil?
"The starving prisoners I shall save
where Siberian wolves are on their tail."

Has Germany no thanks for you --
you saved two hundred thousand men?
"I have compassion with the Jews
and leave the swastika breeding den.

I'll make for us a home in the land
where on the statue of liberty
a Jewess wrote: You hated outcasts
come to our shore; here you are free."

Was ever there in history
a girl so simple, quiet and brave!
Oh Elsa, your blue eyes told me:
"On angel-wings I come to save."

                           William Hermanns    [P388]

Note: P388. ; Stockholm; 1983-06-05; another poem P387 on Elsa Brändström was composed four days earlier which was translated into German G387; Einstein and the Poet - In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden, 1983)is dedicated to Elsa Brändström.