[identity profile] bleodswean.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] greatpoetry
This is what was bequeathed us:
This earth the beloved left
And, leaving,
Left to us.

No other world
But this one:
Willows and the river
And the factory
With its black smokestacks.

No other shore, only this bank
On which the living gather.

No meaning but what we find here.
No purpose but what we make.

That, and the beloved's clear instructions:
Turn me into song; sing me awake.

Date: 2017-06-01 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elenbarathi.livejournal.com
Ooh, I love this; thanks!

Date: 2017-06-02 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] duathir.livejournal.com
Spare and poignant; thank you.

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