"Revelation"
Dear friends
Who are in need,
Do not be so
Easily carried away
By the promising
Lyre of darkness—
Though the sun
May not always come out
When you need it,
When it does,
It always does
What is needed.
NB: Tomas Tranströmer’s poem “Elegy”—from which Bly got the title for his translations of Swedish poetry (Martinson, Ekelöf, and Tranströmer)—is as follows:
ELEGY
I open the first door.
It is a large sunlit room.
A heavy car passes outside
and makes the china quiver.
I open door number two.
Friends! You drank some darkness
and became visible.
Door number three. A narrow hotel room.
View on an alley.
One lamppost shines on the asphalt.
Experience, its beautiful slag.