Wake Up, Day Calls You
16 Nov
Wake up. Day calls you
to your life: your duty.
to your life: your duty.
And to live, nothing more.
Root it out of the glum
night and the darkness
that covered your body
for which light waited
on tiptoe in the dawn.
Root it out of the glum
night and the darkness
that covered your body
for which light waited
on tiptoe in the dawn.
Stand up, affirm the straight
simple will to be
a pure slender virgin.
Test your bodys metal.
cold, heat? Your blood
will tell against the snow,
or behind the window.
simple will to be
a pure slender virgin.
Test your bodys metal.
cold, heat? Your blood
will tell against the snow,
or behind the window.
The colour
in your cheeks will tell.
And look at people. Rest
doing no more than adding
your perfection to another day.
in your cheeks will tell.
And look at people. Rest
doing no more than adding
your perfection to another day.
Your task
is to carry your life high,
and play with it, hurl it
like a voice to the clouds
so it may retrieve the light
already gone from us.
is to carry your life high,
and play with it, hurl it
like a voice to the clouds
so it may retrieve the light
already gone from us.
That is your fate: to live
Do nothing.
Your work is you, nothing more.
Do nothing.
Your work is you, nothing more.
- Pedro Salinas
(A pretty little film by South African company Green Renaissance, shot in 11 hours on 11.11.11 as part of the One Day on Earth Campaign – an effort to document the world’s story.)
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