Lost In Space. 32" x 20", 1997. Gouache, 23K gold leaf, Elian script.
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Transliteration From the Album Be Bayou by C.C. Elian
I'm lost in space
Can't reach my face
Where I look
Space I see.
What, I said,
To these words
In my head,
What is happening
To me.
Don't you recall
Last year and
Last fall,
You begged
To be set free.
I didn't then know,
Of me, nothing
Would show
Once I knew
How to see.
And there's the twist
What is seen
Cannot be missed;
Or else, the pain
Will flow.
Now I pray
Your leave to take,
To places near
Then far.
Take me with you,
Make me a star
As I've always
Heard you could.
It's not for you,
A dream untrue,
You must stay
Where you are.
Alone again,
Unborrowed, unlent
All forces of my self;
Not lost in space,
Not one with face,
This I've seen
To be true.
It's been so long,
Since the first
Of this song,
That I feel
Reborn times two.
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