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thom gunn - the annihilation of nothing / innocence كلمات أغنية

nothing remained: nothing, the wanton name
that nightly i rehe_rs_d till led away
to a dark sleep, or sleep that held one dream

in this a huge contagious absence lay
more sp_ce than sp_ce, over the cloud and slime
defined but by the encroachments of its sway

stripped to indifference at the turns of time
whose end i knew, i woke without desire
and welcomed zero as a paradigm

but now it breaks—images burst with firе
into the quiet spherе where i have bided
showing the landscape holding yet entire:

the power that i envisaged, that presided
ultimate in its abstract devastations
is merely change, the atoms it divided

complete, in ignorance, new combinations
only an infinite finitude i see
in those peculiar lovely variations

it is despair that nothing cannot be
flares in the mind and leaves a smoky mark
of dread
look upward. neither firm nor free
purposeless matter hovers in the dark

he ran the course and as he ran he grew
and smelt his fragrance in the field. already
running he knew the most he ever knew
the egotism of a healthy body

ran into manhood, ignorant of the past:
culture of guilt and guilt’s vague heritage
self_pity and the soul; what he possessed
was rich, potential, like the bud’s tipped rage

the corps developed, it was plain to see
courage, endurance, loyalty and sk!ll
to a morale firm as morality
hardening him to an instrument, until

the finitude of virtues that were there
bodied within the swarthy uniform
a compact innocence, child_like and clear
no doubt could penetrate, no act could harm

when he stood near the russian partisan
being burned alive, he therefore could behold
the ribs wear gently through the darkening skin
and sicken only at the northern cold
could watch the fat burn with a violet flame
and feel disgusted only at the smell
and judge that all pain finishes the same
as melting quietly by his boots it fell

- thom gunn

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