my veins, paling
slightly at the horizon, departing in the starless wind, and returning
in haste to my limbs.

The woof of the night has changed color again.

Can it be that what I am is a promise of something that should be?

* * * * *

The wind blows stronger.

No, it is not for nothing that to-night I am drawing a deeper breath
than on all other nights, a breath stronger than my strength, rising up
over my life.

Night passes, as pure as a summoning voice.

Then it must be, Lord, that soon, perhaps at dawn, you must go further
than your journey and, in flashes of your being, reach heights higher
than everything you have said, live to the last drop of your blood, live
more than life?

Here I am.

THE END

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