Emblems of the Passing World by Adam Kirsch
Author:Adam Kirsch [Kirsch, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59051-735-2
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2015-11-17T05:00:00+00:00
Working-class Mother, 1926
Working-class Mother
Whatever flashing or unlikely thing
The baby boy is beaming at remains
Beyond the frame, forever vanishing,
An emblem of the passing world that feigns
A permanence in which he still believes.
His mother, who has reached the age to know
How quickly our most dear belongings leave —
Having observed her hope and patience go
Until at thirty she looks middle-aged —
Doesn’t attempt to hold him back, but holds
Him proudly up and forward like a pledge
To time. If he is eighty-six years old
Today, with all his hope and patience gone,
Having survived when all those millions died
Only to die a little later on,
Her greatest wish will have been satisfied.
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