To Live For Oneself Alone
'To live for oneself alone is to die.'
Thomas Merton, Seasons of Celebration
Stars line up
and testify
against me;
a raspy chorus of
marsh-voices
rises to decry my
bitter tears as
human lies.
I despair
in the empty
wind, as trees
whisper rumors
of my lonely end.
poem by Steven Federle
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