Wednesday 21 May 2008

Written for a personal epitaph


Written for a personal epitaph


Feeding the worm

Who do I blame

Because laid down

At last by time,

Here under the earth with girl and thief,

Who do I blame

Whose loving crime

Moulded my form

Within her womb,

Who gave me life and then the grave,

Mother I blame.

Here is her labour's end,

Dead limb and mind,

All love and sweat

Gone now to rot.

I am man's reply to every question,

His aim and destination.

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