Who Isn’t Touched By John Clare’s “I Am”?
Who Isn’t Touched By John Clare’s “I Am”?
I Am
by John ClareI am: yet what I am none cares or knows
My friends forsake me like a memory lost,
I am the self-consumer of my woes–
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied, stifled throes–
And yet I am, and live–like vapors tossedInto the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or…