Please pretty darlin’, do not cry.
—Paul McCartney, “Golden Slumbers” adapted from Thomas Dekkers’ “Cradle Song”
And if the candle noticed
that I played the song six times,
it didn’t say anything.
And if the pan were aware
that I struggled to find a harmony,
it kept the failure to itself.
And if the kitchen noticed
that I continued to sing the song
long after the recording was done, well—
The onion did its best
to mask any tears
that no one was there to see.
And if once there was a way
to get back homeward, well,
perhaps, perhaps it will appear again.
*To listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbcvf8a5BwM
Beautiful.
thank you, friend … did you watch that video??? I LOVE it so … oh, the look on their faces, the sweetness of feeling as if I am in the room with them
so sad!
well, yes, and … so driven by beauty. Did you watch the video? I don’t know … I think there is a Japanese word that means the beauty of sadness … wish I remembered it. But that is what this would be, I think …