Ecstasy Once Leapt, but Not in Me
I felt a cleavage in my brain
For hope and faith and love again
That the Earth did not do good
Or my heart knew not how to summon
The friendship I so desired, but could not find
The slumbering pain of tragedy
Lingered like a shell next to the lost sea
Of if my human nature could survive
* * *
While I aged in years that
Only secrets could keep pacts
With immortality, I was bare
A bird, a sky, a planet’s lone summit
And the barren ethereal throng
Could not feel what I maybe once was
All the love of youth had fell
For nature’s curtain of harsh reality
That the Earth did not do evil
Perhaps it was just I that felt the
Sequence of the ravelled fate
Where destiny parted with thee.
Wuji Seshat 