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1 " I am just going outside and may be some time.’The others nod, pretending not to know.At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.He leaves them reading and begins to climb,Goading his ghost into the howling snow;He is just going outside and may be some time.The tent recedes beneath its crust of rimeAnd frostbite is replaced by vertigo:At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.Need we consider it some sort of crime,This numb self-sacrifice of the weakest? No,He is just going outside and may be some timeIn fact, for ever. Solitary enzyme,Though the night yield no glimmer there will glow,At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.He takes leave of the earthly pantomimeQuietly, knowing it is time to go.‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime."A poem by – Derek Mahon "
― Derek Mahon
2 " Everything Is Going to Be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the hand unbidden and the hidden source is the watchful heart. The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right. "
― Derek Mahon , Collected Poems
3 " You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,Let not our naive labours have been in vain! "
4 " They are begging us, you see, in their wordless way,To do something, to speak on their behalfOr at least not to close the door again.Lost people of Treblinka and Pompeii!“Save us, save us”, they seem to say,“Let the god not abandon usWho have come so far in darkness and in pain.We too had our lives to live.You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,Let not our naive labours have been in vain! "
