patti smith
about a boy
Toward another he has gone to breathe an air beyond his own toward a wisdom beyond the shelf toward a dream that dreams itself about a boy beyond it all about a boy beyond it all from the forest from the foam from the field that he had known toward a river twice as blessed toward the inn of happiness about a boy beyond it all about a boy beyond it all from a chaos raging sweet from the deep and dismal street toward another kind of peace toward the great emptiness about a boy beyond it all about a boy beyond it all [ ] I stood among them I stood alone boy boy just a boy just a little boy [ ] just a little boy.