This made me smile today.\u00a0 For whatever reason, it just really summed up a lot of things for me.\u00a0 It’s been a tough couple of weeks.\u00a0 Work has been crazy, my friends are feeling pressure, I had food poisoning and I really feel just out of sync for some reason.\u00a0 It’s just those times that poetry does me the most good.\u00a0 It sweeps in and and lets me know that I’m not the only person who feels that way.\u00a0 I’m not alone in my fixations and sometimes, that’s really all we need to feel better. So thanks Mr. Ginsberg for feeling the way you do.
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\nSong by Allen Ginsberg<\/p>\n
The weight of the world
\nis love.
\nUnder the burden
\nof solitude,
\nunder the burden
\nof dissatisfaction<\/p>\n
the weight,
\nthe weight we carry
\nis love.<\/p>\n
Who can deny?
\nIn dreams
\nit touches
\nthe body,
\nin thought
\nconstructs
\na miracle,
\nin imagination
\nanguishes
\ntill born
\nin human–
\nlooks out of the heart
\nburning with purity–
\nfor the burden of life
\nis love,<\/p>\n
but we carry the weight
\nwearily,
\nand so must rest
\nin the arms of love
\nat last,
\nmust rest in the arms
\nof love.<\/p>\n
No rest
\nwithout love,
\nno sleep
\nwithout dreams
\nof love–
\nbe mad or chill
\nobsessed with angels
\nor machines,
\nthe final wish
\nis love
\n–cannot be bitter,
\ncannot deny,
\ncannot withhold
\nif denied:<\/p>\n
the weight is too heavy<\/p>\n
–must give
\nfor no return
\nas thought
\nis given
\nin solitude
\nin all the excellence
\nof its excess.<\/p>\n
The warm bodies
\nshine together
\nin the darkness,
\nthe hand moves
\nto the center
\nof the flesh,
\nthe skin trembles
\nin happiness
\nand the soul comes
\njoyful to the eye–<\/p>\n
yes, yes,
\nthat’s what
\nI wanted,
\nI always wanted,
\nI always wanted,
\nto return
\nto the body
\nwhere I was born.<\/p>\n
San Jose, 1954<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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