How have I laboured? <br />How have I not laboured <br />To bring her soul to birth, <br />To give these elements a name and a centre! <br />She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid. <br />She has no name, and no place. <br />How have I laboured to bring her soul into separation; <br />To give her a name and her being! <br /> <br />Surely you are bound and entwined, <br />You are mingled with the elements unborn; <br />I have loved a stream and a shadow. <br />I beseech you enter your life. <br />I beseech you learn to say ‘I’ <br />When I question you; <br />For you are no part, but a whole, <br />No portion, but a being.<br /><br />Ezra Pound<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ortus/
