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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)
Copyright ©
T Wignesan
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