Reverie Never Rests

David Evans

Reisterstown, MD

August 8th, 2011

8:53 pm

Between the sweetness of being

And the pain of thinking
Between sleep that is opaque to itself

And the blindness of one who can’t see the stars because of daylight

Lies the talent to glimpse what escapes us

The equivalent of the dawn that threatens at every instant

To evaporate into dream or condense into knowing

But in that interval (and pen in hand)

Replaces something impenetrable with something immaterial

And reveals the imaginary foundations of reality

Reverie never rests

Between the idea

And the reality

Between the motion

And the act

Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception

And the creation

Between the emotion

And the response

Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire

And the spasm

Between the potency

And the existence

Between the essence

And the descent

Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is

Life is

For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends 

Taken from an Opt Ed in the NYT August 6, 2011

On Reverie

By RAPHAëL ENTHOVEN

Turning it into a poem

Then adding a second stanza by T. S. Eliot

Makes Something Else