AMERICA!
If this may please you,
I am ready to twitch
My flabby old waist
To your wild tunes
If this may please you,
I am ready to twitch
My flabby old waist
To your wild tunes
AMERICA!
I am ready to surrender
All my haggardly notions,
My muffled passions,
Ossified slogans of protest
To the grand cacophony
You reify
I am ready to surrender
All my haggardly notions,
My muffled passions,
Ossified slogans of protest
To the grand cacophony
You reify
AMERICA!
If this may please you,
I am ready to lose my blue and gray
Into the pandemonium of hues
You signify,
As I know
I am no longer anything deeper
Than an aging nincompoop,
A garrulous braggart with a fad for
If this may please you,
I am ready to lose my blue and gray
Into the pandemonium of hues
You signify,
As I know
I am no longer anything deeper
Than an aging nincompoop,
A garrulous braggart with a fad for
Racy hyperboles
AMERICA!
There is no need for you to fear,
I am only the ghost of a rebel
Lost in a cave
Located far from the world of voices
That matter anyway
There is no need for you to fear,
I am only the ghost of a rebel
Lost in a cave
Located far from the world of voices
That matter anyway
(©DEEPAK DARSHAK)