My Soul

--Stevie Smith

In the flame of the flickering fire   

The sins of my soul are few

And the thoughts in my head are the thoughts of a bed   

With a solitary view.

But the eye of eternal consciousness   

Must blink as a bat blinks bright

Or ever the thoughts in my head be stilled

On the brink of eternal night.

Oh feed to the golden fish his egg

Where he floats in his captive bowl,

To the cat his kind from the womb born blind,   

And to the Lord my soul.