I WAS WALKING AROUND

I WAS WALKING AROUND

I was walking around on this planet Earth,

I was planning the following years.

lt was long before dawning and long before birth,

it was long before laughter and tears.

And the sky was so high, and the sun was so good,

and the moon was a toy in my hand.

I built what I could, and I soon understood
that this was a wonderful land.

I made waters and mountains and flowers and trees,

- I can't name all the things I have done -

I made elephants, eagles and dolphins and bees

- and then I was setting the sun;

I sat in the sunset alone on a stone,
and I thought: “I have done what I can.”

But there was something wrong ... I felt kind of alone...

...and so I created a man!

I lifted him up from the sand and the mud,
and I made him to look just like me;

he was bones of my bones and blood of my blood,
and I gave him a soul that was free.

And I made him a Woman to live by his side,

and the days were all happy and gay.

Then they suddenly changed, they started to hide
and left me and went their own way.

Since then I' ve been waiting for them to come back.
They are searching for me - that I know;

they are looking for me, they can see every track

I am leaving in sand or in snow.

They are shouting my name, they are begging for peace,
they are calling me Devil or God.

- I give them my answer: the wind in the trees,

and rivers, dark, chilly and broad.

They' ve got blood on their hands,
they' ve got blood on their nails
They have made all my paradise burn. 

They have killed all their brothers
with wings and with tails 

and I will not let them return

until they all know all the things they have done;
they have taken - for that they must pay .

When they come I will count them like sheep, one by one

- and then put them back in the clay.

Stefan Demert