If only, if only a small red fish would come
show his golden eyes above the apathetic ocean and ask me
to make three wishes, to have three dreams I can’t come up with one
If only, if only the tides would come, burning
to wash us off the shore, to take us, wrap us
and bury us like amnesiac seeds in its warm ***** its vast womb
If it came as an enormous face, a shining face
to look us in the eye, to draw us into its blinding mirror,
to make us press our mouths to its vast lips, and into its huge blue eye
retreat and rest...
If only, if only something, someone, anything, anyone would come,
a ray of dark apocalyptic light, an effervescent narcotic toxin,
a new shiver, a new anxiety, a leap into a different world,
if only there could be another man, another wisdom, a new thought
to think us all to deliver us from ourselves, to abolish us
and we cease, universe, souls, if only we could endure the birthing pain
to sleep... die... sleep... to rise again into Imagination...
Magda Carneci from My Cup of Light
Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 3:51 PM UTC
If only, if only a small red fish would come
show his golden eyes above the apathetic ocean and ask me
to make three wishes, to have three dreams I can’t come up with one
If only, if only the tides would come, burning
to wash us off the shore, to take us, wrap us
and bury us like amnesiac seeds in its warm ***** its vast womb
If it came as an enormous face, a shining face
to look us in the eye, to draw us into its blinding mirror,
to make us press our mouths to its vast lips, and into its huge blue eye
retreat and rest...
If only, if only something, someone, anything, anyone would come,
a ray of dark apocalyptic light, an effervescent narcotic toxin,
a new shiver, a new anxiety, a leap into a different world,
if only there could be another man, another wisdom, a new thought
to think us all to deliver us from ourselves, to abolish us
and we cease, universe, souls, if only we could endure the birthing pain
to sleep... die... sleep... to rise again into Imagination...
Magda Carneci from My Cup of Light
