I was ready for all that might happen

Head lowered

         Feet touching my head

And everything that moved in the corner

Against the wall

         Opposite me and beside me

The mirror as it faded had begun to tremble

There was a light

                                                   Long ago

and the face that I see

                           Midnight

            Would this be the hour

Under the roof the rain-pipe weeps

And a far-off train that was calling

The room stretched beyond the walls

At that moment they might have caught me

            Or I could even have stumbled

World was falling over and over into slumber

"Abyss"

By Pierre Reverdy