I abandon now

I abandon now

Three verses poem about fear, despair and resolution.

1944-12-21

One page typewritten document

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[underlined]POEM – “I ABANDON NOW [/underlined]

I abandon now my sight
And blur in melting eyes
The grim woods
And the words of winter
The creaking stubble
Mottled with black-veined stones
To freeze my hand.

I close my senses to
The thrust and surge
Of throatward blood
Nor move to tissues’ impulse
And the bleak hill
Is silence.

But I am waiting
Beyond the bound of fear
And calm
Past all my crying:
I do not tremble though
The cold steals to numb
This body
To ultimate subjection
Resigned in the dispassionate veil
Of winter’s unreasoned
Despair.

21 Dec 44
Cosford - Tuddenham