Youth Comes Again <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Teaching that for everything <br />there’s a season and a time <br />Qoheleth, the great Preacher-King <br />inspired this short verse in rhyme. <br /> <br />We who squander sorrows <br />anticipating joys <br />of nebulous tomorrows <br />the gods of grief annoy. <br />We regard most sadly <br />misfortune’s rhyme and reason, <br />bringing strength till madly <br />youth comes again in season. <br /> <br /> <br />Inspired by Rilke’s Tenth Elegy, translated by the wife of Andrew Solomon, whose book “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression” (Scribner) Rosemary Dinnage reviews in The New York Review of Books, October 4,2001: <br /> <br /> <br />We, who squander our sorrows, <br />How we look beyond them into <br />the mournful passage of time <br />to see whether they might end. <br /> <br />But they are seasons of us, yes, our winter- <br />Abiding leafage, meadows, <br />ponds, landscapes we are born into, <br />inhabited by birds and creatures in the reeds. <br /> <br /> <br />9/30/01<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/youth-comes-again/
