crepuscule @762510

“ Here we go round the prickly pear
   Prickly pear prickly pear
   Here we go round the prickly pear
   At five o'clock in the morning
   
   Between the idea
   And the reality
   Between the motion
   And the act
   Falls the Shadow
                                    For Thine is the Kingdom
   
   Between the conception
   And the creation
   Between the emotion
   And the response
   Falls the Shadow
                                    Life is very long
   
   Between the desire
   And the spasm
   Between the potency
   And the existence
   Between the essence
   And the descent
   Falls the Shadow
                                    For Thine is the Kingdom
   
   For Thine is
   Life is
   For Thine is the
   
   This is the way the world ends
   This is the way the world ends
   This is the way the world ends
   Not with a bang but a whimper ”