This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar shores,
my changeling life has flowed
into a sister channel.
How many spectacles I've missed:
the curtain rising without me,
and falling too. How many friends
I never had the chance to meet.


"This Cruel Age has deflected me..." (1944)


This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister...

This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister...

This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister...

This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister...