SIGN UP  Here Am I Anis Mojgani HERE AM I LYRICS We all wanted that high school sweetheart We wanted to be young in the 50s with meatloaves and sock hops and lawns Lawns so perfect they looked like Clark Gable was kissing them We wanted to be 13 and alive and meet a girl that was 13 and alive And walk with her past the grandstands To sit and hold hands with To sit and kiss with To sit and sit with Like it was something you would miss, but that never was We once went to bed Like between the bed sheets was a valley with dinosaurs still breathing And how we capture these triceratops and brontosauruses But even they were opened up with the smoke that rose out of the homes and the corners that we once climbed through The streets and the footballs, which we once threw The school desks upon, which we once drew The windows that sat open, through we once flew Before the outside world of parking spaces and dead friends came flooding on in And we forgot what we wanted And we became what we become Waitresses and bartenders, city employees and temp positions We are junkies and one kiss poems and we cry the stars As we write our scars onto dumpsters and electric boxes Because the only thing that we can hear is our hearts And the only ones listening are the streets That the blood that breaths through the letters we leave And we dream to rise ourselves up out of these burning buildings But instead we get buried somewhere beneath Because I know my life is like some high school kids notebook A high school kid that shuffles back and forth between school and home Stacking the letters and the pictures too close for anyone outside of his own imagination to read Because it's through the ink that his heart beats, that his heart breaths And we all just wanted to write these notes: Check if you like me Check if you don't Check if you'll date me Check if you won't Because we all wanted the love songs to be true And we did love dinosaurs once And we wanted the stars to hold our hands To lick the teeth, to fuck us But they ended up fucking us So, let your smile twist Like my heart dancing precariously on the edge of my fingertips Staining them like that same high school kid, licking his thoughts Using his sharpie tip writing I was here I was here, mothafucka And ain't none of y'all can write that in the spot that I just wrote it in I'm here, mothafucka, and we all here, mothafucka, and we all mothafuckas, mothafucka Because every breath I give brings me a second closer to the day that my mother may die Because every breath I take, takes me a second further from the moment she caught my father's eye Because every word I carry is another stone to put into place in the foundation that I'm building Because the days can erase something that I never saw What all of us wanted and what none of us got What we all had and have and what we all forgot That we all wanted to be something That we all became something And it might not be the shit we once though we'd be when we were kids, but something is still something And like some cats say: something is better than nothing Feet are smarter than an engine And dreams are stronger than thighs And questions are the only answers we need to know that we are alive as I am when I have the mind of a child Asking, why is 2 + 3 always equal to 5? Where do people go to when they die? What made the beauty of the moon? And the beauty of the sea? Did that beauty make you? Did that beauty make me? Will that make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: always was already am and i still have time to be
"We all want love songs to be true" this man is gifted
This is the type of thing that should be broadcast daily across Times Square.
hes so great ...glad i found him ...my life is so much more complete xD
If you dislike this you have no heart and no gift to see the beauty in life.
favorite poet ever
Sweet! I am Baha'i! This is great to see!
Why would anybody dislike this?
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Here Am I
Anis Mojgani
HERE AM I LYRICS
We all wanted that high school sweetheart
We wanted to be young in the 50s with meatloaves and sock hops and lawns
Lawns so perfect they looked like Clark Gable was kissing them
We wanted to be 13 and alive and meet a girl that was 13 and alive
And walk with her past the grandstands
To sit and hold hands with
To sit and kiss with
To sit and sit with
Like it was something you would miss, but that never was
We once went to bed
Like between the bed sheets was a valley with dinosaurs still breathing
And how we capture these triceratops and brontosauruses
But even they were opened up with the smoke that rose out of the homes and the corners that we once climbed through
The streets and the footballs, which we once threw
The school desks upon, which we once drew
The windows that sat open, through we once flew
Before the outside world of parking spaces and dead friends came flooding on in
And we forgot what we wanted
And we became what we become
Waitresses and bartenders, city employees and temp positions
We are junkies and one kiss poems and we cry the stars
As we write our scars onto dumpsters and electric boxes
Because the only thing that we can hear is our hearts
And the only ones listening are the streets
That the blood that breaths through the letters we leave
And we dream to rise ourselves up out of these burning buildings
But instead we get buried somewhere beneath
Because I know my life is like some high school kids notebook
A high school kid that shuffles back and forth between school and home
Stacking the letters and the pictures too close for anyone outside of his own imagination to read
Because it's through the ink that his heart beats, that his heart breaths
And we all just wanted to write these notes:
Check if you like me
Check if you don't
Check if you'll date me
Check if you won't
Because we all wanted the love songs to be true
And we did love dinosaurs once
And we wanted the stars to hold our hands
To lick the teeth, to fuck us
But they ended up fucking us
So, let your smile twist
Like my heart dancing precariously on the edge of my fingertips
Staining them like that same high school kid, licking his thoughts
Using his sharpie tip writing
I was here
I was here, mothafucka
And ain't none of y'all can write that in the spot that I just wrote it in
I'm here, mothafucka, and we all here, mothafucka, and we all mothafuckas, mothafucka
Because every breath I give brings me a second closer to the day that my mother may die
Because every breath I take, takes me a second further from the moment she caught my father's eye
Because every word I carry is another stone to put into place in the foundation that I'm building
Because the days can erase something that I never saw
What all of us wanted and what none of us got
What we all had and have and what we all forgot
That we all wanted to be something
That we all became something
And it might not be the shit we once though we'd be when we were kids, but something is still something
And like some cats say: something is better than nothing
Feet are smarter than an engine
And dreams are stronger than thighs
And questions are the only answers we need to know that we are alive as I am when I have the mind of a child
Asking, why is 2 + 3 always equal to 5?
Where do people go to when they die?
What made the beauty of the moon?
And the beauty of the sea?
Did that beauty make you?
Did that beauty make me?
Will that make me something?
Will I be something?
Am I something?
and the answer comes: always was
already am
and i still have time to be
Awesome
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EVERYONE ALWAYS GOES "MMMMM" like they're trying to say "that's exactly what I've been trying to tell you!" SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO THE POEM
Awesome