Persons Unseen: a poem inspired by W.H. Auden

The following poem was inspired by a line from W.H. Auden’s poem In Sickness and in Health, which goes:

How warped the mirrors where our worlds are made.

Persons unseen

When we construct worlds through our reflections.

Broken mirrors all

Making sense out of our own receptions.

Not vague, nor shy,

Fascinated by the tumultuous

Warps of pride

Grip is lost in fantasies glorious.

 

Or is the opposite

From ego the temptation to despair?

Mirrors can be cruel

Where warps manifest only what is there.

 

Unity of persons

No warp or crack but pure reflection

Of deity clothed

In humanity of such condition,

Not of a mirror,

Rather a person whose image is love.

A voice resonating

Perfectly mediated by a dove.

 

 

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~ by Gregory Rosauer on December 23, 2011.