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WHY IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL?  VERSION TWO

                                                                                                                                            

By Quentin Smith

 

 

 

Again the door through I pass,

 

From silent clouds and empty fields

 

From the myriad of bordering branches

 

That have curled into a question mark

 

Pointing at thousands of distant black mirrors

 

That have disclosed nothing again.

 

Now green refracting walls again,

 

And that same strange question,

 

The same strange flame

 

Burning through my rooms,

 

The rooms behind my lonely horizon eyes

 

 

 

Tomorrow I will return to my outpost

 

At the edge of the night

 

 And watch in wonder the distant, angled mirrors

 

As they flash the faint mysteries

 

About what is forever beyond

 

The horizon.

 

  

Written 1972 and 2002

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