by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am your whispered voice
your inside voice
your interior voice
your unheard voice
your unspoken voice
your unvoiced voice
your unspeakable voice
I am your heart's voice and your heartless voice
your deepest voice
under layers of living & speaking
the voice of your buried life
your invisible life
your silent life
your unknown life
your unopened life
your unrealized life
the undiscovered life that no one sees
not even your lover
not even yourself
If you will listen to me
if you will lend me the ear
of your mind
and of your bent heart
if you will heed my whisperings...
heed my whisperings...
heed my whisperings...
heed my whisperings...
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-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
How to Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000)
New York: New Directions
See the ferlinghetti connection (part 1)
still you know
ReplyDeletewhen you listen to the grace-
filled voice deep in your heart
that this is not the way
the easy way
the way of the crowd
trying to be accepted
trying to be competitive
trying to control
trying to make yourself feel something
it's a way filled with fear
and anxiety
yeah, I have to say that I kind of agree with you, victor i - the way is marked with fear and anxiety. No way around it.
ReplyDeletethe trick, for me, is to trust that fear & anxiety. I'm always thinking "what's wrong with me?". I think that if I'm doing things "right", I should be feeling grace(!), which I think should feel like peace and confidence or some such thing. So I think I'm doing something "wrong". Yet I'm slowly learning to trust that the fear and anxiety are ok.