Dans c'métier-là, faut rien chercher à comprendre.

Rene Benjamin Alak's Song

Where are you going,

Naïa?

Through the still noon--

Where are you going?

To hear the thunder of the sea

And the wind blowing!--

To find a stormy moon to comfort me

Across the dune!

---Why are you weeping,

Naïa?

Through the still noon--

Why are you weeping?

Because I found no wind, no sea,

No white surf leaping,

Nor any flying moon to comfort me

Upon the dune.

---What did you see there,

Naïa?

In the still noon--

What did you see there?

Only the parched world drowsed in drought,

And a fat bee, there,

Prying and probing at a poppy's mouth

That drooped a-swoon.

---What did you hear there,

Naïa?

In the still noon--

What did you hear there?

Only a kestrel's lonely cry

From the wood near there--

A rustle in the wheat as I passed by--

A cricket's rune.

---Who led you homeward,

Naïa?

Through the still noon--

Who led you homeward?

My soul within me sought the sea,

Leading me foam-ward:

But the lost moon's ghost returned with me

Through the high noon.

---Where is your soul then,

Naïa?

Lost at high noon--

Where is your soul then?

It wanders East--or West--I think--

Or near the Pole, then--

Or died--perhaps there on the dune's dry brink

Seeking the moon.

***

The Dark Star

"The dying star grew dark; the last light faded from it; went out.

Prince Erlik laughed.

"And suddenly the old order of things began to pass away more

swiftly.

"Between earth and outer space--between Creator and created, confusing

and confounding their identities,--a rushing darkness grew--the

hurrying wrack of immemorial storms heralding whirlwinds through which

Truth alone survives.

"Awaiting the inevitable reëstablishment of such temporary conventions

as render the incident of human existence possible, the brooding Demon

which men call Truth stares steadily at Tengri under the high stars

which are passing too, and which at last shall pass away and leave the

Demon watching all alone amid the ruins of eternity."

The Prophet of the Kiot Bordjiguen




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