("It will be easy to love you...")

Muna Lee

Stronger and subtler with each toilsome day;

Yet steel my soul to swear, "They shall not pass."

Ix

It will be easy to love you when I am dead-

Shadowed from light and shut away from sound,

Held deeper than the wild roots underground,

Where nothing can be changed and no more said.

All will be uttered then: beyond the dread

Of failure in you or me, I shall have found

Most perfect quietness to fold me round,

Where I can dream while all Time's years are sped.

But now Life roars about me like a sea,

Sears me like flame, is thunder in my ears.

There is no time for song, no space for tears,

And every vision has forsaken me.

In'a world earthquake-shaken, lightning-charred,

Love is the hardest where all things are hard.