lirik lagu stanley kunitz - king of the river
if the water were clear enough
if the water were still
but the water is not clear
the water is not still
you would see yourself
slipped out of your skin
nosing upstream
slapping, thrashing
tumbling
over the rocks
till you paint them
with your belly’s blood:
finned ego
yard of muscle that coils
uncoils
if the knowledge were given you
but it is not given
for the membrane is clouded
with self~deceptions
and the iridescent image swims
through a mirror that flows
you would surprise yourself
in that other flesh
heavy with milt
bruised, battering toward the dam
that lips the orgiastic pool
come. bathe in these waters
increase and die
if the power were granted you
to break out of your cells
but the imagination fails
and the doors of the senses close
on the child within
you would dare to be changed
as you are changing now
into the shape you dread
beyond the merely human
a dry fire eats you
fat drips from your bones
the flutes of your gills discolor
you have become a ship for parasites
the great clock of your life
is slowing down
and the small clocks run wild
for this you were born
you have cried to the wind
and heard the wind’s reply:
“i did not choose the way
the way chose me.”
you have tasted the fire on your tongue
till it is swollen black
with a prophetic joy:
“burn with me!
the only music is time
the only dance is love.”
if the heart were pure enough
but it is not pure
you would admit
that nothing compels you
any more, nothing
at all abides
but nostalgia and desire
the two~way ladder
between heaven and h~ll
on the threshold
of the last mystery
at the brute absolute hour
you have looked into the eyes
of your creature self
which are glazed with madness
and you say
he is not broken but endures
limber and firm
in the state of his shining
forever inheriting his salt kingdom
from which he is banished
forever
Lirik lagu lainnya:
- lirik lagu harim - parodi
- lirik lagu ленинград (leningrad) - зашыбись! (awesome!)
- lirik lagu hope (uk) - hope "on the radar" freestyle
- lirik lagu digital leather - sad like you
- lirik lagu pano & ozan bra - akh akh
- lirik lagu bryalle - damage
- lirik lagu dionne farris - remember my name
- lirik lagu vijazo - по своему пути
- lirik lagu nora aunor - you and i
- lirik lagu obongjayar - happy head