By John Delonas
O! Eternal Future: I cannot grasp Your solitude. Words will not suffice To express your void; Not even silence Is like your monotony. The seeds of dissolution That brought about my birth, Have shadowed my existence, And in the aging sunset-- How that shadow lengthens! Without light No shadows; And without shade: The light obscures My beloved's face. Truth is two twined strands Which in the beginning sustain, And in the end strangle: Mother and executioner. A veil divides Knowing from nothing: Knowing is life, Nothing is death. For if I am Because I know I am; I am not Because I am not To know I am not. For; where Life is, Death is not; And where Death is-- Life is not.