Sabastian

Sebastian

“I had no mind then
for anything
except for Sebastian
and I saw him already
being threatened,
but I did not yet know then
how black was the threat.
His constant despairing prayer
was to be left alone.
And since he counted among the intruders,
his own conscience,
and all things of human affection,
his days in Arcadia were numbered.

“H e did not fail in love,
but he lost the joy of it,
but I was no longer
a part of his solitude
as my intimacy with the family grew,
I became a part of the world
that he sought to escape.
I became one of the bounds
which held him…
that was the part for which his mother
and out little talks
was seeking to fit me.”

The legendary television series, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh