Miss in Vous

By Steve

Sun, 11 Feb 2018
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I wonder

how you can be so strong,

how you can wait so long

for victory.

 

Life seems to me like a laughing shadow,

a poor play made for madmen and dilettantes.

 

How do you keep smiling

when most men are fools?

 

You've changed

while I remain fantastically fatalistic.

 

Did you expect the summer smiles of poems to greet you?

I can only find a grain of sand

to greet me before death.

 

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Articulates a dark and empty place very well. Demonstrates what good poetry can do. Is the grain of sand a reference to Blake's Auguries of Innocence?

Parson Thru

Submitted by Steve on

Miss in vous is a play on missing you. The grain of sand could reference Blake but I was thinking more of t.s. Eliot’s wasteland. The specific line is something like a bowl of dust. We are dust and to dust we return. It’s really a poem about the current politics of America. We are going nowhere.