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MEHR LICHT
(“More light” – reputed dying words by Goethe)
What are you waiting for? Incapable of cleanly
Living or ending swiftly, forbidden and forbidding,
Horrific another decade imposes its bidding,
A devolving society hurries, dying meanly.
Once life was adventure, knowledge, glory,
Now it’s anxiety, a wandering recollection,
Disappointment, protest and reflection,
Memory of great ancestors that in the story
Shook the earth and stormed heaven. Legacy
Here may be exemplary, a widowed wife:
By irreality find potential reality out, see
By past errors where hypothesis waging
Flowers into theory, and the tight straits of life
Can host the oblivion of disengaging.