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The Miserable

April 13, 2017
By Anonymous

Miserable is the man who begs a miracle,
and receives instead glimpses of paradise.
What torture it is to be plagued in sleep
by visions of the sweet azure of happiness,
and wake to find oneself alone in the cold dark.
Wandering the corridors of one’s own, empty palace of life,
its inhabitants seem as shadows of shades,
cast hazily and lazily across a crackled screen of antiquity.
They dance drunkenly in the light of their own obscurity;
unreal and intangible, their undulations mock the heart of the wanderer.
Miserable is the man who bears within him the flame of paradise,
his soul caking away, devoured by the conflagrations of a lake of fire
beating and crashing rhythmically against the walls of his soft heart.
For in the end it is not the fires of Hell
which rack the spirit of the miserable with despair,
but the brilliant, beautiful flame of heaven,
singeing the wings of a poor Icarus who dared to fly.



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