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the desert (part 1) - diamanda galás lyrics

[verse: diamanda galás]
my era tells me bluntly:
you do not belong
i answer bluntly:
i do not belong
i try to understand you
now i am a shadow
lost in the forest
of a skull
i′m on my feet, the wall is a fence —
the distance shrinks, a window recedes
daylight is a thread
snipped by my lungs to stitch the evening
all i said about my life and death
recurs in the silence
of the stone under my head
am i full of contradictions? that is correct
now i am a plant. yesterday, when i was between fire
and water
i was a harvest
now i am a rose and live coal
now i am the sun and the shadow
i am not a god
am i full of contradictions? that is correct…
the moon always wears
a stone helmet
to fight its own shadows
the door of my house is closed
darkness is a blanket:
a pale moon comes with
a handful of light
my words fall
to convey my gratitude
the k!lling has changed the city’s shape — this rock
is bone
this smoke people breathing
we no longer meet
rejection and exile keep us apart
the promises are dead, sp*ce is dead
death alone has become our meeting point
he shuts the door
not to trap his joy
but to free his grief
a newscast
about a woman in love
being k!lled
about a boy being kidnapped
and a policeman growing into a wall
whatever comes it will be old
so take with you anything other than this madness — get ready
to stay a stranger
they found people in sacks:
one without a head
one without a tongue or hands
one squashed
the rest without names
have you gone mad? please
do not write about these things
you will see
say his name
say i painted his face
stretch your hand to him
or walk like any man
or smile
or say i was once sad
you will see
there is no homeland
there may come a time when you′ll be
accepted to live deaf and dumb, and perhaps
they’ll let you mumble: death
life, resurrection —
and peace be upon you
he wears jihad uniform, struts in a mantle of ideas
a merchant — he does not sell clothes, he sells people
they took him to a ditch and burnt him
he was not a murderer, he was a boy
he was not
he was a voice
vibrating, scaling the steps of sp*ce
and now he’s fluting in the air
darkness
the earth′s trees have become tears on heaven′s cheeks
an eclipse in this place
death snapped the city’s branch and the friends departed
you do not die because you are created or because you have a body
you die because you are the face of the future
the flower that tempted the wind to carry its perfume
died yesterday
the sun no longer rises
it covers its feet with straw
and slips away

- diamanda galas lyrics

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