Now A Darkness Is Coming - Jane Hirshfield

[Lawrence Robinson]

Now A Darkness Is Coming

I hold my life with two hands.
I walk with two legs.
Two ears are enough to hear Bach with.

Blinded in one eye, a person sees with the other.

Now a great darkness is coming.
A both-eyes darkness.

I  have one mouth.
It holds two words.
Yes, No,
Onside all others.

Yes. No. No. Yes.

I say yes to these words, as I must,
and I also refuse them.

My two legs,
shaped to go forward.
obedient to can’t-know and must-be,
Walk into the time that is coming.

	- Jane Hirshfield



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