Saturday, December 22, 2007

The White Wailing

To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear;
to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates
;

- Shelley


Siddhartha Retreats

Who threw Pip into the sea?
Was it thee?

Strictures make the crime
make the irony
of itself
It is inevitable

Who sent Pip down below
to know much more
than he should know?

Says the Whirlwind:
"Speak your judgement, and it shall be"

Dilute in the vastness of it all,
what drove Pip mad;
the deep,
or innocence?



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