One Word

 

One word, one sentence—: From ciphers rush

life beknownst, sudden sense,

the sun halts, the spheres hush

and all things onto it condense.

 

One word—one gleam, one flight, one fire,

one firebrand, one shooting-star—

and once more darkness, endlessly,

in void space round world and I.

 

 

 

Gottfried Benn