After while it gets you down, this game,
you no longer know what it was set you out to achieve
instead of exposing yourself to life
and doing something useful with your hands.
That's when you can't escape,
when pain is a figure tearing the fog
that shrouds you, striking away
the obstacles one by one, covering
the swiftly decreasing distance, now
so close you can make out nothing
but his mug wider than the sky.
- Philippe Jaccottet
you no longer know what it was set you out to achieve
instead of exposing yourself to life
and doing something useful with your hands.
That's when you can't escape,
when pain is a figure tearing the fog
that shrouds you, striking away
the obstacles one by one, covering
the swiftly decreasing distance, now
so close you can make out nothing
but his mug wider than the sky.
- Philippe Jaccottet