Made of Earth -------------------------------------------
Should I be alone in this world
One that I cannot touch
Or
Choose to be alone in another world
The only one I see
To want less
Not more
Of all the useless complexities
What difference would it make
Accept in tactile qualities
That one would perhaps be so empty
And the other still as lonely
Somewhere on the haunts of solitude
The tendencies of thought may spring anew
Become less ephemeral
But made of Earth in footprints of their horizons
What rock or pebble or even cloud
To keep me company
If different eyes can find fresh words
And other ways to spell them
Where on my tongue their antipathy
Is lost
Breathed silently into unknown skies
If such an endeavour could but once
Rest itself of trouble
And lay upon my heart
One single glance
One gestalt
One aching significance
And from the penumbra of fretful ties
Into light
Nor to feel so vacantly exhausted
And never return to darkling pith
And never remember loneliness
Submission Name: Made of Earth
