‘Angel of Light’ – Salvador Dali, 1960 – WikiArt
I can be me forever
There is no limit to being myself
I don’t have a home in a body
In the limitations contained
In a mind.
I don’t want to refer to anything
In order to describe myself, I can describe
My body, my thoughts or my actions
My hopes and my desires
But not myself.
Myself is for the infinite
I am not to be squeezed by words
Not to be qualified or situated
I won’t appear in the world
Of appearances.
Rather all things find a home
In my infinite embrace
So I am a universal home
I am a shelter for everything
That is finite.
I am not to be divided, I cannot be
disunited, driven apart, isolated,
Alienated — my fate is to be whole
My destiny is to have peace
As my horizon.
I cannot be suffering
For suffering knows boundaries
Is born of the finite; I know only
An expanse without end — definition
Of happiness.
How could one-you-I
Bear the infinite
Or find it has a weight
The infinite is for being,
It is for lightness on end.
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Text by Alain Joly
Painting by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
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Website:
– Salvador Dalí (Wikipedia)
Suggestion:
– Voices from Silence (other poems from the blog)
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