Sometimes we have to work alone

Today, I have no need for witnesses

I needn’t the searchlight of expectation

nor to perfect my reply

and least of all to hear the rest of it.

Today, it is I, alone, in some body

all together in its animation

certain of whatever it might do

here wherever it happens to be.

Today, you can't put me to the question

can't pull me out of me to you

nor grasp me nor guilt me

and won’t find me with-out me.

Today, they have to live it alone

to care for all the faces

and reply to their perfection

and ask me another time.

Today, I must embrace a full day

must forget about the days

build the terms for the day after a day

but hold this one on my own.