I see your face
as if it were behind my eyes
or projected upon everything
that my eyes can look upon.
Upon the sky,
a screen, a stage, a curtain,
your eyes appear exotically
blinking through cloud lids.
Clouds, being what they are,
have elsewhere to go,
and so I see the rest of you
flashing me from time to time.
I don’t see them as lambs or bunnies,
but as veils for what they hide,
strip tease far more beguiling
than outright nudity.
Sometimes that is not enough
when I need more of you
I wait for clouds to pass
so I can see you whole again.
I feel as much as see you
much like an angel
cradled in the size of sky
nursing my spirit at your breast.
If, like the unicorn, I should miss the ark
and you should board alone
consider it a spell cast upon my destiny,
selection by a wiser breeder.
The clouds are time and distance:
a long, long time of me,
a far, far distance, you.
Our cycles of togetherness are few.
With certainty there is no choice.
With choice there is no certainty,
Only how to wait, not whether,
and when to turn away and go.
I may be the worst of waiters,
but I love well, and long.
Although I am worth waiting for,
it is I who waits.
And you? Do you love me?
Can you love at all?
Or are you projection
and not within my eye at all.
There may come a time to say
whether we are two, or one.
That time is not this time.
Does never claim chronology?
Vibrations -- Ross Jaylo
Shel Silverstein wrote "The Unicorn" and released it on his 1962 album, "Inside Folk Songs." But the song was popularized in 1968 by a quartet from Calgary, Canada, The Irish Rovers, which sold 8 million copies worldwide, a year after its leader Will Millar, had recorded it with the St. Michaels Kids.
ReplyDeleteA long time ago, when the Earth was green,
There was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
And they'd run around free when the Earth was being born,
And the loveliest of 'em all was the unicorn.
There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the unicorn.
Well now God seen some sinnin' and it caused Him pain.
And He said, "Stand back, I'm going to make it rain!"
He said, "Hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do,
build me a floating zoo,
"nd take some of them.......
"Green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born.
Don't you forget My unicorns."
Well Old Noah he was there and he answered the callin',
And he finished makin' the ark just as the rain started to fallin'.
Then he marched in all them animals two by two,
And he sung out as they went through,
"Hey Lord,"
"I got Your green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I'm so forlorn,
I just can't see no unicorns !"
And Noah looked out through the driving rain,
The unicorns were hiding, playing sally games.
They were kickin' and splashin' while the rain was pourin',
Oh, the sally unicorns!
There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Noah cried, "Close the door 'cause the rain is just pourin',
And we just cannot wait for no unicorn!"
The ark started moving, and it drifted with the tide,
And the unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried.
And the waters come down and sort of flooded them away,
That's why you never seen a unicorn to this very day.
But you'll see green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
You're never gonna see no unicorn!