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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPECTATORS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER
First Line: This is the brief physical eye
Last Line: "they were alive."
Subject(s): Life; Miracles; Survival
First Line: This is the brief physical eye
Last Line: "they were alive."
Subject(s): Life; Miracles; Survival
This is the brief physical eye
To see the event
That shall last forever.
Hands—mind—breath
Live out their time
In the presence of a beginning
That comes in storm,
As once Friday came.
Nor shall we see
The starved hands of worshippers
Covered with rings;
The straight pillar of faith
Lost in the lace-work of stone;
The age-long trail of martyrs,
Or the bones of impossible saints.
Of us
It shall be enough to mark us forever,
To say:
"They were alive."
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