Past Life

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After my arrival in Ittoqqortoormiit, I always have a dream whenever I sleep, the dream will have some changes but the figure inside I’m quite sure is the same person, it’s always the same girl, she is so sweet with good complexion, she is every knowledgeable and she always say 2 poetry which I find it sad 

First: 

I

So you have swept me back,

I who could have walked with the live souls

Above the earth,

I who could have slept among the live flowers

At last;

so for your arrogance

and your ruthlessness

I am swept back

where dead lichens drip

dead cinders upon moss of ash;

so for your arrogance

I am broken at last,

I who had lived unconscious,

who was almost forgot;

if you had let me wait

I had grown from listlessness

into peace,

if you had let me rest with the dead,

I had forgot you

and the past.

The second : 

Here only flame upon flame

and black among the red sparks,

streaks of black and light

grown colourless;

why did you turn back,

that hell should be re-inhabited

of myself thus

swept into nothingness?

why did you glance back?

why did you hesitate for that moment?

why did you bend your face

caught with the flame of the upper earth,

above my face?

what was it that crossed my face

with the light from yours

and your glance?

what was it you saw in my face?

the light of your own face,

the fire of your own presence?

What had my face to offer

but reflex of the earth,

hyacinth colour

caught from the raw fissure in the rock

where the light struck,

and the colour of azure crocuses

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