I contain multitudes.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
No voy a admitir mis desgracias autoimpuestas.
Dark waters like a cold magnet.
Sólo hay una manera real de perder.
this fragile thread
narrarelorigen
Si ahora mismo pudiera,
Quiero definirime desde mi ascesis
El aire que respiro hoy es denso y grueso.
No tengo un recuerdo de mi yo unificado.
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.
Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human--
looks out of the heart
burning with purity--
for the burden of life
is love,
but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.
No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love--
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
--cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:
the weight is too heavy
--must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.
The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye--
yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.
Allen Ginsberg (San José, 1954)
Quiero narrar mi pérdida,
I wonder what my feelings look like.
I wonder if they smell. I wonder if they weigh anything at all. I wonder if the burden they've become is proportional to the space they occupy in the world.
Do I know what it means to feel. Do I think when I feel. Do I have, perhaps, a slightly less naive approach to anything remotely complicated or even tangentially related to other(s).
Do I have a portion of the Earth to just land gracefully. Any field below this grief?
Why is loss such an unbearable truth.
I wonder if loss has dark eyes.
It's so hard to stop shaking when every breath implies a tear and when every blink of and eye necessarily brings an eruption from below, a crack on the earth, a question.
I retake my burden, my insomnia and the (half)circles below my eyes. The tall grass on which I didn't lie. The past. The memories constructed so meticulously, so breakable and diaphanous. Every pore on my body clogged with your rejection.
I am lying on the floor. My heart pounds in my left temple and the beat becomes a sound mixed with the fuzzy rug. There is no dust on this floor but and incredibly ridiculous amount of hair. I am losing my hair. Days are grey, I stay up all night, every blue night, meditating about my loss of myself and the world and you and
What am I doing?!
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