We Live as Form
We Live as Form - meaning Summary
Longing for Eternal Reality
The poem portrays human life as formal and cut off from an underlying truth. People imagine an unchanging eternal realm through dreams, cling to comforting illusions, and wander blind and lonely in search of the transcendent. It warns that we wrongly expect salvation from such dreams, which cannot reach beyond appearance. By calling us creators—"we, who are Gods"—the poem stresses how human perception shapes existence while remaining estranged from ultimate reality.
Read Complete AnalysesWe live as form, from truth estranged - surmising (when the pains assail us) eternal realm that never changed, of which dark dreams at night do tell us. We like illusion's false embrace, we're blind and leaderless and lonely - and search in fear through time and place for what's of the eternal only. Salvation we expect and grace from dreams that cannot go the distance - we, who are Gods, and in whose space creation first became existence.
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