Man, Poet-Seer How Long Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

As soon as I saw the name POET-SEER in the title of this new poem, I clicked on it. He is not the speaker but he is the actor in the background. I don't mean actor in the sense of theatre but rather someone engaged in the affairs of the world. And it is the role of one who suffers for the rest of us. You have a variety of poetic ways of describing this. I will just generalize here. He is carrying the weight of being human: it's heavy, the road is long, but he perseveres. My sense is that his life of suffering frees the rest of us from living in pain. That is a Promethean role and it can only be fulfilled by one who accepts it. No whiner - Oh, woe is me, why me? why? - can fulfill it. The Poet-Seer maintains an heroic silence. He does not answer these questions posed to him. He chooses not to. And so he has become that paradoxical character: a poet who is silent, a seer whose wisdom is manifested in his actions and suffering,