“In this pitiable condition I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR” These words spoken by Edgar Allan Poe’s memorable character Roderick Usher in “The Fall of the House of Usher” represent a deep and tragic truth …
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I was once witness in the wildernessTo a remarkable occurrence:They roamed like desert animals, scatteredAimless, divided, their worlds shattered.A people estranged and wanting of worth,They were among those who wallowed on the earth.As for streams of water, I found none;Nor any quenched soul, not even one. Then one day the foundations shook,And each were pulled …
On the Night of My Opa’s Death When after night fell, Within a heap of ashes Sprawling the Field of Earth Where in myriads Withering sparks ascended And disappeared Like particles of dust,A coal burned orange there A living ember, a benevolent glow, A beating, flickering heart— But that too twinkled and Went out after …