Czeslaw Milosz

Here you will find the Poem In Black Despair of poet Czeslaw Milosz

In Black Despair

In grayish doubt and black despair,
I drafted hymns to the earth and the air,
pretending to joy, although I lacked it.
The age had made lament redundant.

So here's the question -- who can answer it --
Was he a brave man or a hypocrite?