lirik lagu li-young lee - my father, in heaven, is reading out loud
my father, in heaven, is reading out loud
to himself psalms or news. now he ponders what
he’s read. no. he is listening for the sound
of children in the yard. was that laughing
or crying? so much depends upon the
answer, for either he will go on reading
or he’ll run to save a child’s day from grief
as it is in heaven, so it was on earth
because my father walked the earth with a grave
determined rhythm, my shoulders ached
from his gaze. because my father’s shoulders
ached from the pulling of oars, my life now moves
with a powerful back~and~forth rhythm:
nostalgia, speculation. because he
made me recite a book a month, i forget
everything as soon as i read it. and knowledge
never comes but while i’m mid~stride a flight
of stairs, or lost a moment on some avenue
a remarkable disappointment to him
i am like anyone who arrives late
in the millennium and is unable
to stay to the end of days. the world’s
beginnings are obscure to me, its outcomes
inaccessible. i don’t understand
the source of starlight, or starlight’s destinations
and already another year slides out
of balance. but i don’t disparage scholars;
my father was one and i loved him
who packed his books once, and all of our belongings
then sat down to await instruction
from his god, yes, but also from a radio
at the doorway, i watched, and i suddenly
knew he was one like me, who got my learning
under a lintel; he was one of the powerless
to whom knowledge came while he sat among
suitcases, boxes, old newspapers, string
he did not decide peace or war, home or exile
escape by land or escape by sea
he waited merely, as always someone
waits, far, near, here, hereafter, to find out:
is it praise or lament hidden in the next moment?
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