A story of a story

Found in the lending library of the St.Xavier's College when studying for my topology paper.


There was once a story
It ended before it's beginning
And began after it's end.

Its heroes entered it,
After their death,
And left it,
before their birth.

Its heroes spoke of some world of some sky,
They said all kinds of things,
Only they did not say,
What they did not know themselves,
That they were only heroes from a story

From a story that ends,
Before it's beginning,
And begins afer it has ended.




Vasco Popa
Translated by Anne Pennington
From the book: Poetry in the making
Author : Ted Huges