I am Vanquished

I AM VANQUISHED

I am vanquished (if there is victory)
but whom do I surrender to?
I fell from every other world
like fruit from a tree.
The learned doctors inject me, shield me,
and “I work”- look at all this paper.
They write to me, I read,
I find my rest in keeping busy.
Without you who play with me,
I would be an animal and shameless.
Among you I went crazy, I the finite.
I am a human being, and hence ridiculous.

-Attila Jozsef