if beneath everything there lurked
a bottomless void never to ve filled
what else would life be than despair
despair by all means the glorified forever
great through the wisdom
whose secret is foolishness
despair by all means the heroic forever
great through the hope whose outburst is madness
herken now that one outset
its why its reason
hearken now that one outset to the best of
my art to the best om my knowledge
the choice of forever-i take it-and apart
from my willing it has no existence
lamentation to the fullness of time
how hollow life would be
the manifest of a change-slain
