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“The Hermit” by Robert Bly 🇺🇸 (23 Dec 192621 Nov 2021)
Darkness is falling through darkness,
Falling from ledge
To ledge.
There is a man whose body is perfectly whole.
He stands, the storm behind him,
And the grass blades are leaping in the wind.
Darkness is gathered in folds
About his feet.
He is no one.
When we see
Him, we grow calm,
And sail on into the tunnels of joyful death.