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“I Live up Here” by W. S. Merwin 🇺🇸 (30 Sep 1927 – 15 Mar 2019)
I live up here
And a little bit to the left
And I go down only
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For the accidents and then
Never a moment too soon
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Just the same it’s a life it’s plenty
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The stairs the petals she loves me
Every time
Nothing has changed
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Oh down there down there
Every time
The glass knights lie by their gloves of blood
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In the pans of the scales the helmets
Brim over with water
It’s perfectly fair
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The pavements are dealt out the dice
Every moment arrive somewhere
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You can hear the hearses getting lost in lungs
Their bells stalling
And then silence comes with the plate and I
Give what I can
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Feeling It’s worth it
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For I see
What my votes the mice are accomplishing
And I know I’m free
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This is how I live
Up here and simply
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Others do otherwise
Maybe