Laughing and Crying by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Laughing and Crying

I laugh to hear me say what I am saying

Walking in my cave of flesh

There must be a place

There must be a place

Where all is light

I laugh to hear me say what I am saying

O Rama

Audiart O Audiart

dancing Shiva dear one

Your face flies through the sky

I laugh to say what I am saying

Each of us a lamp

a spirit-lamp

a lantern burning

a lamp a place beyond a turning

where all is light

I laugh and cry

with mask of tears

and laughing face

I laugh and cry to hear me say what I am saying

My laughing face

and mask of tears

makes me laugh and cry to hear me sing what I am saying

For there must be a place

There must be a place

where all is light

— «Open Eye, Open Heart» Lawrence Ferlinghetti