Life Bends Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Life Bends



Life bends, but we, we two
You and I on the roof-turret
feel the red dusk winds.
Zephyr winked at the
red dusk; let off the winds.
the stars became aggressive
from the very moment that
they were lighted
by Night in his regal car
to-night:
a little far away
under the look of those who
from their households
want
to look, a cemetery small
lies and the tombs and
graves and monuments
and phosphor lights and
glow-worms and shades that
pass here and there
restless as in life
a restlessness
transmitted from the generation
to the next and so on
and so on:
the trembling continues
and the angst

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 14 April 2015

The trembling and the angst continue - until there will be no need for them because the harsh reality they reflect will have been somehow lifted. I'm not sure of the dynamic of this change but not every poem has to detail a process. This poem instead conveys a sense of relief that the order of things has become humane. It shows a wprld that is familiar to us and not one with hidden perils. If this is the direction in which LIFE BENDS, let's have more bending!

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