The Man with the Blue Guitar VII

It is the sun that shares our works.

The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

When shall I come to say of the sun,

It is a sea; it shares nothing;

The sun no longer shares our works

And the earth is alive with creeping men,

Mechanical beetles never quite warm?

And shall I then stand in the sun, as now

I stand in the moon, and call it good,

The immaculate, the merciful good,

Detached from us, from things as they are?

Not to be part of the sun? To stand

Remote and call it merciful?

The strings are cold on the blue guitar.