Wight

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Wight

 

In the dark we disappear, pure being.

Our mirror images, impure being.

 

Being and becoming (Heidegger), being and

nothingness (Sartre)--which is purer being?

 

Being alone is no way to be: thus

loneliness is the test of pure being.

 

Nights in love I fell too far or not quite

far enough--one pure, one impure being.

 

Clouds, snow, mist, the dragon's breath on water,

smoke from fire--a metaphor's pure being.

 

Stillness and more stillness and the light locked

deep inside--both pure and impure being.

 

Is is the verb of being, I the noun--

or pronoun for the purists of being.

 

I was, I am, I looked within and saw

nothing very clearly: purest being.

 

 

Stanley Plumly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Footnote:

 

wight

n. Obsolete

A living being; a creature.