THE SILK ROAD

   



     THE SILK ROAD

                And which one of us will dare to predict,
                Won't they wake up one day
                Are there ancient traditions in Russia or China?
                the kind of "thinking" that allows
                A person can achieve a free attitude
                to the world of technology?    
                Martin Heidegger

                Contralto voice:

 A freight train howled into the surf.
Will you wake up under the brocade moon, my dear?

The mascara of the laurel on your lips is sweet.
You'll have to dip an olive branch in them.

                Baritone voice:

– You sing so that my nightmare is over.,
as an echelon of the worldwide stream.

The Golden Taurus here is a patient ox,
not a star rising from the East.

Guiding highways or will of God
lead us to unity in a small world?

Those who studied Wang Wei and Li Bo
are now searching for God in the Celestial Empire.

And we have followed this path.
They wanted to tear us all away from God,

to bring us all –  as obedient slaves
in the earthly Kingdoms of Mao or Magog. . .

                Contralto voice:

– There is fornication of labor.  We are not singing about it.
We two tramps have no time for consumer goods.

Sleeping on earth, wandering around it together
and singing to earthlings who have forgotten the Sky…