what if a much of a which of a wind
By e. e. cummings
- what if a much of a which of a wind
- gives the truth to summer's lie;
- bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
- and yanks immortal stars awry?
- Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
- (blow friend to fiend: blow space to time)
- -when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
- the single secret will still be man
- what if a keen of a lean wind flays
- screaming hills with sleet and snow:
- strangles valleys by ropes of things
- and stifles forests in white ago?
- Blow hope to terror; blow seeing to blind
- (blow pity to envy and soul to mind)
- -whose hearts are mountains, roots are trees,
- it's they shall cry hello to the spring
- what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
- bites this universe in two,
- peels forever out of his grave
- and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
- Blow soon to never and never to twice
- (blow life to isn't: blow death to was)-
- all nothing's only our hugest home;
- the most who die, the more we live.