Complete Poems by Boye Karin

Author:Boye, Karin [Boye, Karin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2013-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

II

THE ELF DAGUR SINGS ABOUT FATE

In the world's tree nine days

sacrificed he hung

- so pale I never saw any,

god or man -

erect, with relentless mouth,

his ruler's hands clenched,

above the sacrifice he made

his eyelids closed.

But my mind

jumped like a snake - I cried: 'Who has done it?'

The dark voice answered, tremblingly low:

'I myself have done it.'

Little do I know of wisdom's well,

never yearned to be there.

Its lustre is black. I know a spring,

gleaming silver-white:

deep, deep near life's roots

a wave washes my mind.

No one demanded my eye as a pledge.

I drink freely in there.

Like a stream

flows my day - as though I had never heard

the strange answer I hear each night in my dreams:

'I myself have done it.'

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