SONG OF THE TWO ROSES Comments

Don't say anything, listen to the stars
Perhaps they will tell you something
of the rose that in your garden is
and of the rose of time,
- the one that is dead or alive -
in the burning sand.
Beautiful the rose that in your garden is,
not the bitter sorceress that calls you
since your birth, obscure rose
that lights you the end and the banks
of the Acheron. Don't talk, you are alone
with your unutterable nothingness, for always distant
from the deepest blue. Look then
if the water goes into an island
where the roses grow fateful or fortunate;
and write and sing. And hear the stars
that speak from a page lost.
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