May 19, 2008

Myrln Monday: Legacy

Myrln is gone, but his spirit remains with us in the power of his words, thanks to our daughter, who salvaged his collection of writings.

Legacy

My children:

I want to leave you something –

but what?

My images are either silver compound

or airy theater –

both without example or duration:

mere light reflecting a moment of existence.

I was, my children,

but how to prove that to you?

What will serve as evidence –

for what is legacy but proof

your forebears were something more

than momentary makers of egg or sperm?

There is only this:

I came from shadows,

and toward shadows I inexorably moved;

I dove (or sank) deeply into shadows,

skirted the light flanking them, reflected awhile

then wrapped myself in them.

(Wrapt myself in them.)

waf 1977

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