In The Deep Torrents Looked He Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

In the deep torrents looked he
The cavalier
The love-torn cavalier
From the high window
That thin as a small slit
In those heavy walls looked
On the roaring cascades below

Somehow
Somehow
He crept
Out of that slit
That window of thinness
And
Looking at the heavens
He saw them frown.

Then with word
But with resolute thought
Into the eddying torrent
Leapt
The torrent seized the prey
As hungry hawks or beasts
of prey or vultures
Red the torrent raged
For a few minutes
Then
Commixed again to
Its former seething white
Returned.