O Paradise You Seem So Far (1983)

o paradise you seem so far
distant as the farthest star
o life how illness quickly mars
wrecked with pain, thoughts of death, etcetra

let me mingle with there, vain liberty
let me soak in thy soothing sea!
lights blink and vanish upon your face
like lonely thoughts in a vast space

casurinas before me stand
so bold above the camp
a life beyond these woeful men
mocked by the wind which you bend
i may be hurting no one knows
you are boring until the wind blows


9-11 May 1983