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Category: Herbert Mason

Everything had life to me,’ he heard Enkidu murmur, ‘the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. It’s gone. It’s gone.

dying, life-and-death, loss-of-hope

He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, ‘It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost

death, enkidu, forgetting-someone, gilgamesh, loss

As when we can recall so vividlyWe almost touch,Or think of all the gestures that we failedTo make.

He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, ‘It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost

death, enkidu, forgetting-someone, gilgamesh, loss

As when we can recall so vividlyWe almost touch,Or think of all the gestures that we failedTo make.