And still they come and go: and this is all I know-
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way,
With glad or grievous hearts I’ll never understand
Because Time spins so fast, and they’ve no time to stay
Beyond the moment’s gesture of a lifted hand.
And still, between the shadow and the blinding flame,
The brave despair of men flings onward, ever the same
As in those doom-lit years that wait them, and have been…
And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.
(Siegfried Sassoon)
More Poetry from Siegfried Sassoon:
Siegfried Sassoon Poems based on Topics: Man, Sadness, Life, Courage- "The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still" (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
- How to Die (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
- What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
- To a Childless Woman (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
- The Heritage (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
- Song-Books of the War (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)