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lirik lagu william carlos williams - the yellow flower

what shall i say, because talk i must?
that i have found a cure
for the sick?

i have found no cure
for the sick
but this crooked flower

which only to look upon
all men
are cured. this

is that flower
for which all men
sing secretly their hymns

of praise. this
is that sacred
flower!

can this be so?
a flower so crooked
and obscure? it is

a mustard flower
and not a mustard flower
a single spray
topping the deformed stem
of fleshy leaves
in this freezing weather
under glass

an ungainly flower and
an unnatural one
in this climate; what

can be the reason
that it has picked me out
to hold me, openmouthed

rooted before this window
in the cold
my will

drained from me
so that i have only eyes
for these yellow
twisted petals?

that the sight
though strange to me
must be a common one
is clear: there are such flowers
with such leaves
native to some climate

which they can call
their own

but why the torture
and the escape through
the flower? it is

as if michelangelo
had conceived the subject
of his slaves from this

~~ or might have done so
and did he not make
the marble bloom? i

am sad
as he was sad
in his heroic mood

but also
i have eyes
that are made to see and if
they see ruin for myself
and all that i hold
dear, they see
also
through the eyes
and through the lips

and tongue the power
to free myself
and speak of it, as

michelangelo through his hands
had the same, if greater
power

which leaves, to account for
the tortured bodies
of

the slaves themselves
and
the tortured body of my flower

which is not a mustard flower at all
but some unrecognized
and unearthly flower

for me to naturalize
and acclimate
and choose it for my own

- lirik lagu william carlos williams

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