Poems by Themis

Sudden Change

The heart sits blank in utter darkness

Through days and nights of idiocy,

Lonely and still, a vacant desert,

A stone's insensibility...

When sudden through the self's vast spaces

The shining worlds begin to move,

Trailing their moons and starry graces

Across the fields of heavenly love;

And suddenly the inner deeps

Vault outward to infinity,

And all the far blue heaven leaps

And merges in the heart's wide sea.

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