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Joost Baars

what we started we start

what we started we start
each day anew and each day   
I want to start even more anew  
   
with you again.

to know you is to get to know you
time and again is to learn
to loose you again every day and
known in you acquire my finitude   
in the distance
of an eternity

with you. again

is not a given in the time
in which we live, to start forsaking it  
and embrace the entropy
of that which daily starts

with you again

let me wend towards together
every day until the inevitable
after to which we both belong
more than to each other
another first to start each time

with you again.

wat we begonnen zijn beginnen

wat we begonnen zijn beginnen
we elke dag opnieuw en elke dag
wil ik nog meer opnieuw

met jou beginnen.

je te kennen is je keer op keer
te leren kennen is je elke dag
weer leren te verliezen en
gekend in jou mijn eindigheid
verwerven in de afstand
van een eeuwigheid

met jou. beginnen

is de tijd waarin we wonen
niet gegeven, die beginnen
te verlaten en de entropie
omarmen die zich dagelijks

met jou beginnen

laat. mij in elke dag een ander
samen wenden tot het onvermijdelijke
na waaraan we beiden toebehoren
meer dan aan elkaar
daar telkens voor het eerst

met jou beginnen.
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what we started we start

what we started we start
each day anew and each day   
I want to start even more anew  
   
with you again.

to know you is to get to know you
time and again is to learn
to loose you again every day and
known in you acquire my finitude   
in the distance
of an eternity

with you. again

is not a given in the time
in which we live, to start forsaking it  
and embrace the entropy
of that which daily starts

with you again

let me wend towards together
every day until the inevitable
after to which we both belong
more than to each other
another first to start each time

with you again.

what we started we start

what we started we start
each day anew and each day   
I want to start even more anew  
   
with you again.

to know you is to get to know you
time and again is to learn
to loose you again every day and
known in you acquire my finitude   
in the distance
of an eternity

with you. again

is not a given in the time
in which we live, to start forsaking it  
and embrace the entropy
of that which daily starts

with you again

let me wend towards together
every day until the inevitable
after to which we both belong
more than to each other
another first to start each time

with you again.
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