Oblivious Vapor



I am: yet what I am none cares or knows:
    My friends forsake me like a memory lost,
I am the self-consumer of my woes--
    They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love's frenzied stifled throes--
And yet I am, and live--like vapors tossed

-John Clare (1793-1864), I am







images © 2000 by Randy Wang
up | home | me | donate | email