Oct. 17, 2011
Once again this painful memory As I listen to a haunting choral work 'O Sacrum Convivium' intoned Over and over again these harmonies Resound in me yet only sadness reigns And the sorrow of the world on me descends. I pass a paraplegic in a chair Pushed resolutely by a wizened hag And in the chair it is myself I see, Head immense, lolling, the twisted form, Distorted face, passionless and mute. The tears unbidden flow €“ this world must change And grief give room for joy to take its stand. So shall the Overman transitioning Be born into this world of human clay, The predecessor of the superman When light shall fill the earth and sorrow cease And truth come down and occupy life's throne.
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