Thursday 5 May 2011

Dream

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  1. Listen

    with the night falling we are saying thank you

    we are stopping on the bridge to bow from the railings

    we are running out of the glass rooms

    with our mouths full of food to look at the sky

    and say thank you

    we are standing by the water looking out

    in different directions

    back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging

    after funerals we are saying thank you

    after the news of the dead

    whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you

    in a culture up to its chin in shame

    living in the stench it has chosen we are saying thank you

    over telephones we are saying thank you

    in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators

    remembering wars and the police at the back door

    and the beatings on the stairs we are saying thank you

    in the banks that use us we are saying thank you

    with the crooks in office with the rich and fashionable

    unchanged we go on saying thank you thank you

    with the animals dying around us

    our lost feelings we are saying thank you

    with the forests falling faster than the minutes

    of our lives we are saying thank you

    with the words going out like cells of a brain

    with the cities growing over us like earth

    we are saying thank you faster and faster

    with nobody listening we are saying thank you

    we are saying thank you and waving

    dark though it is.

    W.S. Merwin

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