‘Single-minded Orb’

Single-minded Orb,

I cry to you from my humble ashes —

I mourn for all the world gone wrong —

I wonder in the solitude of night

if there will ever be an end.

Big-hearted beauty,

cause the earth to shatter;

let the land collapse into itself;

bring about the day

when every pillar, straight against the sky,

will bow itself beneath the autumn leaves

of earthen doom.

This I speak withal.