Because I am
Imaginary
The good life
is familiar to me,
And I’m leaving
On a cloud
Make a serene
Small trip.
Because the secret
that I know how to read
If I said
Would make you laugh.
my heart is naked
That nothing hides
And nothing keeps
That he doesn’t let go,
Nothing he knows
Nothing he thinks
He won’t tell you
No lie.
And my two eyes
Are world maps
all i see
And nothing rumbles.
I was in China
All ænbsp; time
And I saw there
Of great happiness.
I was in the center
Of the earth
where there is no
Of misery.
If I visit
The planets
And the stars
more secret,
In the night
the deepest
I am nobody
And everyone.
If I go away
Without memory
How can I
To come back?
Don’t search
To see me again
I will be lænbsp;
Without knowing:
Without figure
And no name
Without reputation
Nor fame,
I am a bird
Delighted:
Love that God
Invented.
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Since I am
Somebody’s dream,
I have a good life.
Sometimes I go away in my sailboat on a cloud
and take a quiet little trip.
I have a secret
which I have learned how to read inside myself;
if I told it to you,
it would make you laugh.
My heart is naked
and no one can put clothes on it,
and nothing can be put on
that will not immediately fall off.
My secret is ignorant,
it doesn’t sing songs,
no lie,
it has nothing to tell you.
My two eyes
are maps of the planet—
I see everything
and nothing upsets me.
just now
I was in China
and saw there a great piece of happiness
that belonged to one man.
And I have been to the center of the earth,
where there is no suffering.
If on your loneliest nights,
I visit other planets
and the most secret stars of all,
besides being no one,
know that I am you
and everybody.
But if I go away
without giving you a name to remember me with,
how will I find
the right dream to return to?
You won’t have to mark down
on your calendar that I am coming back;
don’t bother to write me into your notebooks.
I will be around
when you aren’t thinking about me,
without hair or a neck,
without a nose and cheeks
no reputation—
there won’t be anything.
I am a bird
which God made.
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