I am pure loneliness
I am empty air
I am drifting cloud.
I have no form
I am boundless
I have no rest.
I have no house
I pass through places
I am indifferent wind.
I am the white bird
Flying away from land
I am the horizon.
I am a wave
That will never reach the shore.
I am an empty shell
Cast up on the sand.
I am the moonlight
On the cottage with no roof.
I am the forgotten dead
In the broken vault on the hill.
I am the old man
Carrying his water in a pail.
I am light traveling in empty space.
I am a diminishing star
Speeding away
Out of the universe.
Kathleen Raines, “The Unloved”