Till Lindemann's 'Messer' - 'Die Muse Schläft Nur So An Mir'

Love that is denied fruit.

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The Muse Only Sleeps Like This With Me

The Muse
Only sleeps like this with me
And asks to let her be angry
She just wants to kiss
I must bore into the body only if she wants
She lies there nightly in a dress
With her too-small breasts
She wants a child of mine
Without copulation
It is sleeping in the word
She says
She says for years

The child
Already sleeping in my bars
She cannot afford it
Has a fear of milk and ceasareans
And bruises
She wants to give birth without the screws

The Muse lies in a wedding dress
Wig-powder dropping into her eyes
I have lost my desire
And the child becomes lost within the hip
But it does want to live
And sucks on my bars
Though nothing more grows there
I find its face on the surface of urine
As painful as a kidney stone

Notes: Italics are lines that I'm less sure of than the rest.

Comments: I interpreted this as a on-off relationship without sex that ends when the muse in question is married to another; but it might be one of the marriage resulting in loss of lust situations as well. There are many ways to interpret this poem, for sure.

I can't be the only one who thinks the narrative voice sounds incredibly wistful about the lost potential of the child - even moreso than the muse discussed, despite the fact that the poem is about her wanting a child with him.