Poems
THEME/S
A demon's grip is the wide universe—
Unending space and termless time, yet each
Distance and day hold ever the same heart-break!
Sunlight falls like a fire-whip on the flesh:
From pulse-throb to small quivering pulse-throb
Our life keeps running neath that titan stroke.
And every star opens a wound of dream
In the unescapable gloom that is our soul.
Even beauty is a rainbow hung on tears. . . .
But through the terror and the tyranny
And yet the blind defiance by our blood
A wondrous word steals out in lonely calms
When on itself man's mind looks with long gaze
And broods on the secret of mortality.
Too vast the doom of boundless space and time
Seems for so tiny a creature and too keen
For a pygmy such denial of defeat!
Are then the monster hours a wizard's wand
Smiting to wake up some veiled heaven within—
Challenge to charm out lost omnipotence?
O freedom to gold freedom calls across
The iron infinite of a world of woe!
Pain eats up joy that we may crave God's deep,
Fate drives us to a quest of God's immense,
We bleed that God in us may break through clay.
And the whole tyranny and terror we face
Are a perilous pressure of God on His own self
To smile from blankest sleep. But once we wake
The superhuman light behind our eyes
All that we dread laughs suddenly divine!
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