The Partitioned Wailing Wall - Part Two

Part Two one by one numbered they falter stricken parted mother from unborn still-born ravaged lover from brother now huddled they go up the altar now a grey veil to bind the blush of brides wan and bent voyaging through no-man’s water to weak to feel even pain O for a job, a job to keep me going to fatten my woman to draw a pension And while we are waiting Give me leave, my Captain Give me leave to go upon the shore for the sails do droop and flop in the shrouded past and I may no longer see the breast of my tarnished home-born door Kritik der Urteilskraft Are we all agreed on this point Then clear the court for the Queen Mother Yesterday's sister science Throw out the precedents, no, not that one Dust those three long buried in Königsberg And remember, always remember Here are no laws, make your own If the wind will not favour you Then tear down the sails If physics will hamper you Then paddle your way through For Here are no laws, only, you You must go on and on That's all that's left for you Give no quarter Discount not your enemies Always on and on For Here are no laws only YOU © T. Wignesan, 1957 (from the collection: tell them i'm gone, 1983)