White night

crystalline

 

a royal ring

sickly sweet

 

as Nation

watches.

 

We survive:

hearts fail

 

love teeters

on abyss

 

four givens. *

 

Madame Sosostris

draws her cards,

 

‘’I see the detail

in his eyes!’’

 

She cries.

 

White night

we breathe

 

into silence.

 

 

*Existential theory,

the four givens are

Death, Freedom,

Isolation, Meaninglessness.