Sunday 21 June 2015

Tithonus] Chronos] " These things I sigh for and lament, but nothing can be done."

"The long unmeasured pulse of time moves ever[y thing]."

Half a year looms past, revolves, an ending turn. There is a terror and eventually a fatigued comfort in the days causelessly passing faster and faster.

Like a jagged stone worn smooth by sand and wave.

["Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery."]

Many by way of horror come to crumble in this sand.

A few black rocks still jut half-drowned above the writhing ocean surface,

But for how long I can discern that they are there
I do not know,
in the dying light the ocean grows - the sound of it, the unformed shape

A kind of everything.

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