Aprils Apogee
This message is addressed to no one
Who does not already possess it
As his own life or as a yearning
Of his heart.
Let us hurl ourselves
Into time's dynamic sweep
And hear age-old tales
As if they were new
That they may teach us to speak.
Pharaoh foretold it in his day
And Sibyl the prophetess too
With neither fault nor error
That redemption would come to us
For the greatest guilt.
At night the leaping fountains speak
In a louder tone and make
The heart a leaping flame.
Into the nighttime is expelled
What once ruled during the day.
Whence all this?
Not from this world.
From another world.
from She Who Is Alive by Robert Harris