Severus Alexander

17 January, 2017

I, and you, will make a mark without chisel or nail

Where now, I cannot say, but that I shall

Long laboring, to hold no grasp of end or fail

 

Not like those men, wretched, miserable

Who, upon that door at which no one ever dared refuse to bow

At cracks and crevices in vain scratch and pull

 

Like men who fence across the salle

Each of them to curse and spit and fall

And in the mud to screech and hiss and howl

 

Let none to question have the gall

We will set an inky mark upon the page 

That I will die for you, or not at all