A Requiem

 

A  Requiem

Remoteness is its own secret.

                                W. S. Merwin

                                "The Wilderness"

A requiem is a sung elegy, it

is a refrain, and so

because it is song 

it is a way

of staying somehow relevant

at this exact circumstance

like tide does, for hours if you're watching 

or even

if you're not and how that kind

of song or some release of it at least 

seems deepest at being

repeated or feinting away

after the whole of life of all it was 

offered and tentative or not 

there was some reach some

temptation before saying no but

not wanting to and come away an octave

lower though not always keener

if you can forgive under the light

of it, the finally coming undone of it.