Kerub/Cherub

Karin Boye


Också du, som våndas under allas klander,
också du är kallad till din plats bland keruberna --
med lejonfötter, med solvingar,
med vördnadsbjudande människohuvud:
djur-ängel.
De ropar efter dig: "Oren, oren!"
Därför att de aldrig drabbades av renhet.
Låga, samla dina gnistor ur vråarna,
ässjan väntar, och hammaren som smider dig till blixt
skall lära dig blixtens snabba renhet
och ditt namn bland keruberna.


Cherub
English translation by David McDuff
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Also you, who suffer the agonies of everyone's condemnation,
also you are called to your place among the cherubim -
with lion's feet, with wings of sun,
with venerable human head:
beast-angel.
They call after you: 'Impure, impure!'
Because they were never afflicted by purity.
Flame, gather your sparks out of the corners,
the forge awaits, and the hammer that welds you to lightning
will teach you the lightning's swift purity
and your name among the cherubim.


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Source. About the poet. Illustration by Tillman86 (Still shot from the short film "Outcast", shot in Chicago.)

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