A poem to go home with
And where is the peat?
And where is the dust?
And where is the meat?
And where is the lust?
And no more fears,
And no more cries,
And no more tears
And no-one dies.
There are no skies,
There is no floor,
There are no ties.
There is no pure.
There's none to kill-
There's none to hate;
There's no free will.
There's no more fate.
And there is no gore,
And there is no skin,
And there is no law,
And there is no sin.
And no more slope-
There is no track,
And no more hope.
There is no black.
There is no grey,
There is no white,
There is no day,
There is no night.
There's none to abuse,
There's no mankind.
There's none to lose,
There's none to find.
And no demiurge,
And none to weep.
And none to purge,
And none to keep.
There's no divine,
There are no more ends,
There's no more mine,
There are no more friends.
And what of taste,
And what of touch?
And what of waste,
And what of such?
And what of rapture,
And what of rape?
And what of capture,
And what of escape?
And no more where,
No more of when.
And no more there,
No more of then.
There's no more right,
There's no more wrong,
There's no more spite.
There's no too long,
There's no too late.
There's no too weak.
There is no great,
There is no meek.
And what of locusts?
And what of flies?
And what of trusts?
And what of lies?
And what of vines?
And vinegar?
And what of wines?
And brown sugar?
The old order of things
Has passed away
And tomorrow brings
Not one more day
No more any;
No more some.
No more every;
No more none.
There is no exile.
There is no throne.
There is no meanwhile.
There is no alone.
And nothing to mind,
And nothing to steal.
And no more blind,
And nothing to feel.
There's no more breath,
There's no more earth.
There's no more death,
There's no more birth.
There is no heaven,
There is no hell.
There is no graven,
There is no fell.
And no more remembered,
And no more forever,
And no more splendoured,
And no more not ever.
And no more.
~by the kist lich