The Promise of Blue

时间:2013-07-25 06:04:25

(单词翻译:单击)

The Promise of Blue
Kazim Ali
 
 
What we wanted was to watch him silver fall 
 Cut the surface of the water and leave no bruise(擦伤,青肿) 
 
Every earth bound angel who was taught his body was a sin 
 Calculates in his head equations needed to sculpt the air 
 
As he aims from grim height for the promise of blue
 
 
Always smote by lightning, disobedient boys tumble in a tangle down 
 To drown in the well of others' rage or their own sorrow 
 
Thirst to again return skyward, unbloodied and held close 
 
 
But to leap is to know the body is the equation the sky has written 
 And around the body that launches space unfolds its shape of wings 
 
Blue water and blue air are the same substance and within 
 He turns into currents and tides surging in place 
 
Swims the endless distance down, soars sleek through the cold depth 
 
 
Now years after he still sings the eerie air as he walks along the shore 
 He still knows the secret—that at every moment in the body and breath 
 
One can still plummet and plunge and soar

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