Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PASSING OF YEGOR, by C. K. TOREN


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THE PASSING OF YEGOR, by                    
First Line: You have not long to live - yegor
Last Line: Back -- fading like a star.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


You have not long to live -- Yegor.
The night spreads her wings westward
and the wind blows from the land.
This is your last hour Yegor,
the eternal, undying, unfading, deathless hour.
It is your evidence. Love it, Yegor,
and be not afraid to part with it.

I shall not worship Yegor, nor weep
your passing, no more than I weep
and worship the rise and fall of the tides.
Death needs no worship,
Death needs no weeping.
Death needs understanding.
Death needs re-dedication
and the fellowship of the sinner.

Soon, Yegor, you shall understand
the contradiction of the contradiction,
you will fade back
to timeless time,
before you were erected in blood and bone,
to the whirling movement
of dustless dust
formless form,
being in becoming.
You shall know the unknowable in the unknowable
and the sound in the silence.
You will go back, Yegor,
Back -- fading like a star.





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