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  • Ted Hughes

    How Water Began to Play • Canticles

    Featuring artist: Dušan Bogdanović
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Water wanted to live
It went to the sun it came weeping back
Water wanted to live
It went to the trees they burned it came weeping back
They rotted they came weeping back
Water wanted to live
It went to the flowers they crumpled it came weeping back
It wanted to live
It went to the womb it met blood
It came weeping back
It went to the womb it met maggot and rottenness
It came weeping back it wanted to die
 
It went to time it came through the stone door
It came weeping back
It went searching through all time and space for nothingness
It came weeping back it wanted to die
 
Till it had no weeping left
It lay at the bottom of things
Utterly worn out utterly clear
 

 

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