For this you've striven <br />Daring, to fail: <br />Your sky is riven <br />Like a tearing veil. <br /> <br />For this, you've wasted <br />Wings of your youth; <br />Divined, and tasted <br />Bitter springs of truth. <br /> <br />From sand unslakèd <br />Twisted strong cords, <br />And wandering naked <br />Among trysted swords. <br /> <br />There's a word unspoken, <br />A knot untied. <br />Whatever is broken <br />The earth may hide. <br /> <br />The road was jagged <br />Over sharp stones: <br />Your body's too ragged <br />To cover your bones. <br /> <br />The wind scatters <br />Tears upon dust; <br />Your soul's in tatters <br />Where the spears thrust.<br /><br />Elinor Morton Wylie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-sleet-and-candlelight/
