poetry time!

May 28, 2004 20:07


owing that poetry seems like a nice thing to share...i give to you all my favorite poem.

it's by rene daumal...and i think it's french surrealist poetry. either way...enjoy.



last letter to his wife

This is how I sum up for myself what I wish to convey to those who work here with me:

I am dead because I lack desire,

I lack desire because i think I possess.

I think I possess because I do not try to give.

In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;

Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;

Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing:

Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;

In desiring to become, you begin to live.
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