Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Dec 5, 2008

Light/Dark

Light
Burns eyes
Exposed to sight
Leaves nowhere to hide
Magnifies every error, all flaws
Opens souls, visible to all others
Punchers at the being like sharp awls
You lose all privacy the conscious it smothers
All pathways are now withheld from your view
Options are invisible, no course at hand
The world becomes clouded and blue
Hopes melt away like sand
Wishing only to die
Hide in night
Lonely sigh
Light
Dark
Stifles view
Blinders so stark
No colors, no hues
It crushed my very thoughts
Attacks my hopes and compounds tears
Builds beliefs that every thing is naught
Nothing to a heart devoid except for fears
With all outside distractions gone, hiding all paths
Then mind can think with no interruption
Isolated, no goal, feeling life’s wrath
Examine any need for redemption
Destined to never reach
See new marks
Find each
Dark

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