9.22.2021

the speechless sorrow of his eyes

Man, the egregious egoist 
(In mystery the twig is bent) 
Imagines, by some mental twist, 
That he alone is sentient 
 
Of the intolerable load 
That on all living creatures lies, 
Nor stoops to pity in the toad 
The speechless sorrow of his eyes. 
 
He asks no questions of the snake, 
Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom 
Where lidless fishes, broad awake, 
Swim staring at a nightmare doom. 
 

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