PoemWhen The Light Appears
Author / PoetAllen Ginsberg
TagsEmotion, Faith, Growth, Light

You’ll bare your bones you’ll grow you’ll pray you’ll only know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You’ll sing & you’ll love you’ll praise blue heavens above
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You’ll whimper & you’ll cry you’ll get yourself sick and sigh
You’ll sleep & you’ll dream you’ll only know what you mean
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You’ll come & you’ll go, you’ll wander to and fro
You’ll go home in despair you’ll wonder why’d you care
You’ll stammer & you’ll lie you’ll ask everybody why
You’ll cough and you’ll pout you’ll kick your toe with gout
You’ll jump you’ll shout you’ll knock you’re friends about
You’ll bawl and you’ll deny & announce your eyes are dry
You’ll roll and you’ll rock you’ll show your big hard cock
You’ll love and you’ll grieve & one day you’ll come believe
As you whistle & you smile the lord made you worthwhile
You’ll preach and you’ll glide on the pulpit in your pride
Sneak & slide across the stage like a river in high tide
You’ll come fast or come on slow just the same you’ll never know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears

Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Region: North America
Period: Contemporary
Movement: Beat Generation
Awards: National Book Award, Robert Frost Medal

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Hum Bom!Bombing, Conflict, Repetition
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Those TwoComplaint, Humor, Nature
Cosmopolitan GreetingsChange, Freedom, Perception
An AsphodelDesire, Dreaming, Nudity
SongBurden, Humanity, Love
In The Baggage Room At GreyhoundEternity, Loss, Tragedy
September On Jessore RoadDespair, Families, Poverty
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