AND THIS I DREAMT, AND THIS I DREAM

 

AND SOMETIME THIS I WILL DREAM AGAIN,

AND ALL WILL BE REPEATED, ALL BE RE-EMBODIED,

YOU WILL DREAM EVERYTHING I HAVE SEEN IN DREAM.

TO ONE SIDE FROM OURSELVES, TO ONE SIDE FROM THE WORLD

WAVE FOLLOWS WAVE TO BREAK ON THE SHORE,

ON EACH WAVE IS A STAR, A PERSON, A BIRD,

DREAMS, REALITY, DEATH – ON WAVE AFTER WAVE.

NO NEED FOR A DATE: I WAS, I AM, AND I WILL BE,

LIFE IS A WONDER OF WONDERS, AND TO WONDER

I DEDICATE MYSELF, ON MY KNEES, LIKE AN ORPHAN,

ALONE – AMONG MIRRORS – FENCED IN BY REFLECTIONS:

CITIES AND SEAS, IRIDESCENT, INTENSIFIED.

A MOTHER IN TEARS TAKES A CHILD ON HER LAP.

－ ARSENY TARKOVSKY

〈AND THIS I DREAMT,  AND THIS I DREAM〉

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 This poem was from a massive research period before 2019 COVID hit.

At the time I was doing an intl performance exchange and gonna premiered a new 

stage play abroad. 

Excited. They had a theater company that I sincerely loved their

work too. 

This was part of the making-of pre-production research period for me. 

dig dig n more digging in.

Somehow this poem resonated with what I was creating back then.

Then COVID came, we couldn't go.

Then now.

Slowly open the Pandora's box, looking thru the kaleidoscope visions :))

*Also dedicate this poem above to my bros spirit, today is his passed-away anniversary. RIP to all passed souls. Death Rebirth is just another layer of dreams.

 Wael Shawky "Cabaret Crusades" Egypt