Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

Author:James Baldwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141963808
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

looking at me for a second, and at the space behind me, then back down to the keyboard,

on me.

I watched his fingers on the keyboard. His eyes were closed.

Shine

on me.

I watched his face and his hands, as though I had never seen them before, and felt him beginning to drag his song up out of me.

Let the light

from the lighthouse

shine on me.

It was more than strange how the two voices came together, one issuing through his fingers, the other through his throat, both from the same center; and he was the center only because, out of the vast and unmapped geography of himself, he sang, for us, our song. I watched his face, and I really wondered how anybody could bear that.

Let it

shine

on me!

Oh,

let it shine

on me.

I want,

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