I’ve seen the invisible and the undone, the promised dawn at sundown
I’ve seen redemption after crime, the promised Spring in wintertime
I’ve seen the sky growing dark, the moon bending her arc
I’ve heard clarions and larks in wet marshes, in night sparks
I’ve seen lizards and rattlesnakes, pebbles and ash-flakes
a dragonfly, a unicorn, a flying fish, a jackal
I’ve seen caged beasts freed, locomotives at full speed
I’ve seen kites in the sunlight, flames in the twilight
I’ve seen the wide open ocean, the planets in motion
the simple soul, the heart of gold, the silly vanity of all
I’ve read Melville and I’ve dreamt of a vessel sailing
bound to the lighthouse island somewhere in Britain or Ireland
I’ve read the bloody Macbeth and the Paradise Lost
I’ve seen seven sisters, an hour-glass and clockworks
I’ve learnt algebra and geometries and I’ve dreamt of my metamorphosis
my nerves like roots sucking blood from every vein
I’ve seen the tracks of cranes on the pond’s clay
I’ve learnt the language of sands and its alphabet of gold
I’ve encompassed the whole world
its maps and kingdoms, safe and sound from sorrows
I’ve seen demons and scarecrows
I’ve smelled the soil after the rain and I’ve felt a strange kind of pain
I’ve met a man without a name in a bruise-like sort of shame
I’ve heard a call for perfection and its obvious rejection
I’ve seen a red carnation, doom and salvation
I’ve read revolution as love in reverse
I’ve heard a wailing saxophone and a dreaming verse
A hatful of silence, a handful of solitude
the wisdom of second chance, moments of beatitude
I’ve learnt to see the unapparent wind
when trees are shaken and leaves are trembling
I’ve dreamt of the child that is father of the man
a firefly in the palm of his hand
the darkness torn asunder, fetching it to me with full wonder
I’ve dreamt of Endymion under the old oak
and a cripple dancer in a ragged cloak
I’ve heard questions for philosophers, puzzles solved with ease
I’ve learnt that wars begin in the minds of men
so it’s there we should defend peace
Is it man that is God-made or God that is man-made?
brother with sly brother, mother with queer mother
whispering to each other
Lunatic, amnesiac, insomniac
Ecstatic, magnetic, maniac