Travelling Standing Still/Memoir

by Genevieve Taggard

MEMOIR

Such bliss he had, such agony,And what he had he gave to me.

I shut the door of our small house,And lived with agony's carouse:

I opened the door and let inOthers to live down the din;

And all the time his bliss was thereEluding me like silver air,

And when I caught his silver gleeIt was too magical for me.

I broke his bliss, I hushed his woe,We stood in our empty house to go

Packed and coated on our quest;He went east, I went west,

Until at length we met beforeThe narrow panel of our door;

We stood and faced each other asLong as lifetimes take to pass;

Into the house I led him then,I shut the door on living men;

And now we watch grope to and froThe ghost of bliss, the ghost of woe.