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Waiting for Truth's Reveal
The speaker approaches Time seeking truth and instruction, resisting youthful bravado to instead sit and observe how events shape a life. Years later, he faces a harsh, impersonal reality formed by happenstance and suffering. The poem concludes that these accumulated experiences prove little, reducing youthful searching to a weary recognition of trite, inexpressible truths. It is a meditation on passivity, disillusionment, and the anticlimactic outcome of waiting for revelation.
Read Complete AnalysesStanding under the fobbed Impendent belly of Time Tell me the truth, I said, Teach me the way things go. All the other lads there Were itching to have a bash, But I thought wanting unfair: It and finding out clash. So he patted my head, booming Boy, There's no green in your eye: Sit here and watch the hail Of occurence clobber life out To a shape no one sees - Dare you look at that straight? Oh thank you, I said, Oh yes please, And sat down to wait. Half life is over now, And I meet full face on dark mornings The bestial visor, bent in By the blows of what happened to happen. What does it prove? Sod all. In this way I spent youth, Tracing the trite untransferable Truss-advertisement, truth.
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