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​...poem Lyrics by Michael Hessel-Mial

i am rainbow

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It will be easier
when I'm with you,
right now I'm hungry and sad
and can only play language
like a violin,
pretending it was made
of something.
I want to tumble down
and splash into childhood,
I want to draw it out
but when I think of what I want
I see waves crashing on a shore
I'll never know if language
finds possibility
in what it cannot do
or if it doesn't
I just know that I
was bound to look the other way
until it passes
I'm bound into living
for the sake of it
because the opposite choice
is death
I just want to fingerpaint
with words, because it's easier
than painting the entire sky
Poetry was born in the absoluteness
of words like stars or moon
I want to shout
at those fixed lights
for the sake of it,
to feel drunk on poem-drunk
which is the drunk of thinking
poem-drunk is real
I want to press my hollow
into the world
so my children can fill it
with their lives
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Michael Hessel-Mial

Michael Hessel-Mial

About “​...poem” by Michael Hessel-Mial

Read the complete lyrics to "​...poem" by Michael Hessel-Mial from the album "i am rainbow". On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Non-Music, Poetry, American Literature.

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"​...poem" appears on "i am rainbow".

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