09 Dec Owning Oneself
Posted at 19:28h
in Poems
Own oneself is owned by none:
I neither father nor brother nor son.
Man released from stitch and seam
As he falls into the sleep-walk dream, the
Unowned, unloved, unknown lurch;
Who cut man from this, his perch,
Tethers of love and helping grasp,
Man stripped of all things at last . . .
Nothing owed and nothing he ought,
Falling free, in an endless naught;
Man at last has come unbound,
At liberty to tumble down, down.