Sarastro

Missing in action

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The welcoming clouds receive his stare

Mutilated and incomplete

And the grass now wraps his arms

That it will never wrap anyone again;

His mouth is still crooked

Of incomprehension, of nostalgia, of surrender;

From his hands take flight a dim hope

That in the sunset goes out;

 

And the gold, the minutes, the trees

They’re like lament upon his forehead

Because he was thrown and was abandoned

And in the great dome pass strange airplanes.

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