To Live For Oneself Alone Poem by Steven Federle

To Live For Oneself Alone



'To live for oneself alone is to die.'
Thomas Merton, Seasons of Celebration

Stars line up
and testify
against me;

a raspy chorus of
marsh-voices
rises to decry my
bitter tears as
human lies.

I despair
in the empty
wind, as trees
whisper rumors
of my lonely end.

Steven Federle
Monday, March 5, 2012
poem poems despair Voices Seasons Celebration
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