Thursday, 6 August 2015

When You Go Away

 
 
I was struck by a line in this poem: 'and that my words are the garment of what I shall never be.' There is sorrow here, but being by WS Mervin, it so beautifully and subtly rendered. 

 
When You Go Away - WS Mervin
 
When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
Showing the black walls
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
That has no place in the years

And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes
In one breath I wake
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
I remember that I am falling
That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy

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