ALONE
From
childhood’s hour, I have not been,
As
others were, I have not seen.
As
others saw, I could not bring
My
passions, from a common spring.
From the same source, I have not been taken,
My
sorrow, I could not awaken;
My
heart to join at the same tone,
And
all I loved, I loved to be alone.
Then
in my childhood, in the dawn,
Of
a most stormy life was drawn.
From
every depth of good and evil,
The
mystery which binds me still;
From
the torrent, or the fountain;
From
the white cliff of the mountain;
From
the sun that round me rolled
In
its autumn tint of gold.
From
the lightning in the sky
As
it passed me flying by,
From
the thunder and the storm,
And
the clouds took a form.
When
the rest of the heaven was blue;
There
was a demon in my view.
-Sunil Gunin