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Crazy Da Must Sing


There is a force of loneliness around my heart.


It is not a mood that rises sometimes


in my life.


It is a force-the power of the world itself.


It is all that surrounds me,


all that counters my desire.




When I turn toward the Heart,


before I understand,


I stand in a field of loneliness


that sees the things


I look at all the worlds through


the ring of power that draws


around the brows.


My heart becomes sorrowful,


and I am afraid.


This is the crucial clarity of man.



When he sees it, then he understands.


He turns and draws it through


the Heart,


like a string around a beaded sack,


like a cord that holds his solid trouser up


He draws it with him in the heart,


And all things fall to nothing


In a joy.