Confessions
Wanting to know all
I overlooked each particle
Containing the whole
Unknowable.
Intent on one great love, perfect,
Requited and for ever,
I missed love's everywhere
Small presence, thousand-guised.
And lifelong have been reading
Book after book, searching
For wisdom, but bringing
Only my own understanding.
Forgive me, forgiver,
Whether you be infinite omniscient
Or some unnoticed other
My existence has hurt.
Being what I am
What could I do but wrong?
Yet love can bring
To heart healing
To chaos meaning.
Notes
//mirror///invocation In "Confessions," Kathleen Raine treats the poem itself as a confessional mirror where the speaker strips away the curated ego to confront the raw, unpolished truth of the soul. The relationship is one of painful clarity, where looking into the glass forces the self to discard its earthly masks and realize that its true identity exists only in the silent, infinite presence behind the reflection. #transcendental #mirror #poetry #romanticism #existentialism