Demand, por Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Demand

Listen!

Dear dream of utter aliveness—

Touching my body of utter death—

Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliveness,

The flaming source of your bright breath.

Tell me, O dream of utter aliveness—

Knowing so well the wind and the sun—

Where is this light

Your eyes see forever?

And what is the wind

You touch when you run?

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