Ivan Vanya - Memento*

All these things shall fade

and past,

and all this fleshly thralldom’s** needs and lusts

shall time crumble,

dust to dust.

Our shackles loosed in thundering

quake our spirits

emancipation in its wake


* Latin word meaning 'Remember'

**thralldom - a state of servitude (slavery) or submission

Ivan Vanya

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