Song of Two Worlds by Alan Lightman

Author:Alan Lightman
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 2016-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

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I launch my small skiff in the sea,

Water still cool from the night,

Oarlocks corroded with salt rust.

I row for a jut up the coast,

Quivering ocher in sun.

Then the sea thickens, my oars

Become mired. I stare in the water

And see my own body

Just under the surface and clinging

With arms to my oars. “I’m the end of you,”

Whispers this other me. “I perceive all.”

I try to shake off this dark clinging thing,

But I’m unable. It heaves on my oars,

Trying to wrestle me out of the boat.

“I’m the end of you. I know the day

Of your dying, your silence, your pleasures,

Your sufferings, when the last night

Will swoop down on your world.”

I feel my mind bleeding.

I strike the thing hard,

And again, and again, and at last

It gives up the struggle,

Releases its grip, slowly sinks and submerges,

Pale face that grows dim and is gone.

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