To A Teacher

To A Teacher Hurt once and for all into silence. A long pain ending without a song to prove it. Who could stand beside you so close to eden, When you glinted in every eye the held-high Razor, shivering every ram and son? And now the silent loony bin, where The shadows live in the rafters like Day-weary bats, Until the turning mind, a radar signal, Lures them to exaggerate Mountain-size on the white stone wall Your tiny limp. How can i leave you in such a house? Are there no more saints and wizards To praise their ways with pupils, No more evil to stun with the slap Of a wet red tongue? Did you confuse the messiah in a mirror And rest because he had finally come? Let me cry help beside you, teacher. I have entered under this dark roof As fearlessly as an honoured son Enters his father's house.