I think of the time

10/04/1936

I think of the time

Where a man first said:

It is such time

Twilight dawn or noon

maybe midnight

The stars and the sun equally lonely

In the crowd of stars

Go back to the same point

In cloud at least

And men also pass at this point

Of day and night

Men think about their death

The stars and the sun don’t think about it

I would prefer in this circumstance

To be star or sun

What to be a man

But you have to be a man

To think about life

The sun and the stars don’t think about it

The stars don’t live

Midnight Poems. Unpublished 1936-1940, Ed. Seghers, 192 pages, €15.

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