Elegy - Hapax

Between the blossom that is gathered

And the flower that is offered as gift

There’s only an unspeakable voidness

The same black nothing, my thoughts strove against

Who are you, that so fill

My heart with your absence?

So fill the whole earth with your absence?

Oh Who are you, that so fill

My throat with your absence

A selfless inner sense

Oh tell

You fashion an urn or a vase of flowers

But I make the most despairing efforts to find

Those words that are black enough to

Describe this darkness

That would blacken my tongue if I’d dare to name them

Who are you, that so fill

My heart with your absence?

So fill the whole earth with your absence?

Oh Who are you, that so fill

My throat with your absence

A selfless inner sense

Oh tell

Who are you, that so fill

My heart with your absence?

So fill the whole earth with your absence?

Oh Who are you, that so fill

My throat with your absence

A selfless inner sense

A selfless inner sense