Child sprung from
the two of us — showing
us our ideal, the way
— ours! father
and mother who
sadly existing
survive him as
the two extremes —
badly coupled in him
and sundered
— from whence his death — o-
bliterating this little child 'self'
Stéphane Mallarmé
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-translated-in-english/
