I have lived long
in that other world
Not in this
Not in the one I should have
But in that other other
world of bright meaning
heart's ease
overflowing affection
and precious and beautiful loves
I'm old now
That world
must go
And this, too,
the world that has failed me
and I it.
It will fade soon enough
already has begun.
And I will fade away from it.
For I'm old now
And the only world that matters
is that other one
The world
I only half-walked in
only half-inhabited
that afterlife
that soon
one day
will be all my life
