Labyrinth

[UdoFrentzen]

‘Do not enter this house.’
It reads above the door.

‘Explored by the threat
Is this ground plan’,
Tells me Ariadne’s offspring
Hypsipyle: ‘Look ahead:

Behind the entrance
You have no more light
From above or below:
Gone is one dimension.

Behind the corners
It grows dusky grey,
You grope along the walls:
Gone the second dimension.

At the closing stone,
The pedestal of nothing,
You stop in darkness:
Gone the third dimension.

You don’t grasp a bit,
Grasp again in vain,
Dead in your tracks:
Gone the fourth dimension.’

‘Thanks, Hypsipyle, back:’
Out of a camp of misery
I rescue one human life,

Ship to an isle with palms,

Sleep beneath the sky.

[UdoFrentzen]

'Explored by the thread (line 3)