Sustain Is an Attempt Against Death

(Ladies and Gentleman
I feel that this award was not made for me as a man
But to my work and life's work, in agony and sweat of the human spirit
Something which was not there before
Already dedicated to the same anguish and travail
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself
Which alone can make good writing, because only that is worth writing about)

In a moment I would take you back
A moment of the heart in a motorcar
(It's not made to me as a man)

You could be so much more
(Problems of the human heart in conflict with itself
Which alone cane make good writing, because only that is worth writing about)

Don't you know
Sustain is an attempt against Death

Momento Mori I cry
Imagine if books could die

Imagine how it would feel
Putting lives reel to reel

Sustain is an attempt against Death
And silence is a psychopomp

Bundle the words as a ritual copse
Under the lake there is a garland
Containing our hopes
Mara Coma