Moses (After Schoenberg)(Hmv 4) Poem by johannes lewinsky

My strength is spent
And the image
(for all is image)
is powerless

O transcience of the image
That has smashed
Omniscience of thought
My thought

No longer is my tongue
Unseen immeasurable
But constrained
By speech (laborious)

O God O God

You have become
And in becoming
Have become finite

A finite image
Powerless
A powerless image
And all around

Images of powerlessness

For what is perceived is easy
Thought is easy

To enclose the boundless
God's eternity

Is easy
But not this

This wasteland of images
Where all is image
And nothing
Is not conceivable
This is not easy

For no-one herewill believe
And I am lost
For my love has been debased
And has debased

O word O Word
That eternally I search for

O Word O Word
That eternally I lack