It opens, the gate to the garden
with the docility of a page
that frequent devotion questions
and inside, my gaze
has no need to fix on objects
that already exist, exact, in memory.
I know the customs and souls
and that dialect of allusions
that every human gathering goes weaving.
I've no need to speak
nor claim false privilege;
they know me well who surround me here,
know well my afflictions and weakness.
This is to reach the highest thing,
that Heaven perhaps will grant us:
not admiration or victory
but simply to be accepted
as part of an undeniable Reality,
like stones and trees.
Simplicity
Jorge Luis Borges
(2)
Poem topics: heaven, memory, human, grant, claim, garden, privilege, victory, speak, reach, reality, gaze, devotion, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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