The great author Leo Perutz takes you into a hasty day of a young man who falls into criminality to reach something he already owns - love. With chains on his hands he tries to escape the police, redeem his deeds and win the heart of a girl, he don't even know, without seeing that his true love is right at his side and willing to help even through this catastrophy. Maybe you know a stressful life too, but can you imagine that it gets so fast, you'd miss your own death?
pursued, fallen from grace
is it a hopeless run, or just an endless maze?
Hands tied, chains won't remain
but once bound, there wait aeons in disgrace
thin lines and collossal walls
abscission in its pure effect
nothing, death will teach
a lucid dream, it's appearance
presence, is all you can ruin
conceive, you only lived once
throat parched, stranded and fooled
but no drink can cease what was craved for
relinquished, the aim unknown
closed eyes wont see what was lain at feet
thin lines and collossal walls
abscission in its pure effect
nothing, death will teach
a lucid dream, it's appearance
presence, is all you can ruin
conceive, you only lived once
there is no escape
as clock disrupts the margin of reality
a wound torn, liquid life floods the ground
limbs shattered, as he crumples and falls
only eyes wander, alive,
restless through city streets
hold tight to the steady pulse of day
taste pain and bliss and fall to sleep
chains broken, through tumbles violent force
clenched fist rebelled in grief behind hidden hands
dared ardor and fate, lifeless but finally free