.....

You glow with both life and death,
shivering, the poles within you.

A barren civilization
has its way with you, daily.

You try to watch it
through the eyes of geese,
and fall into their imagined terrors.

You try to watch it through the eyes
of your enemies, and disappear:
they are not looking at you.

You glow with both life and death
you befriend your loneliness.