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

Look Into My Eyes

Look into my eyes
You will see no lies
Always and only truth
Faith without need of proof
Will to do anything to try to make
Whatever cost it may take

I make promises a sacred vow
For all the future, not just now
To attempt to make fate come true
To never give up on me and you
For that I have paid a heavy price
I would do it again, do it twice
It is my choice, my path to follow
Even if it is a bitter pill to swallow

Look into my eyes
You will see no lies
Yes there is pain
Even I wonder if I am sane
But I will not accept that hope is lost
I continue, fully knowing the cost

The night is lonely and eternally long
The days filled with crushing song
Often seems torment is all I can feel
As layers of life continue to peel
My heart and thoughts I lay bare
Who knows? I do not care
But to all the word I still must hide
The truth for which past dreams have died

Look into my eyes
You will see no lies
They show my thoughts
A soul in fate caught
Committed to stand
And hold out my hand

Truth comes to me in each single touch
And to faith I still strive to clutch
Sometimes reality forces one to weep
A times the last hope continues to seep
Away on the wind of life slipping away
But still my heart will not sway
Though all belief might continue to wane
I continue to endure all of the pain

I may be wrong, the world may be right
It might be blindness, not truthful sight
But it is my destiny continue
My one hope at happiness to pursue
Because my heart is sure it is real
With every shared moment, the truth that I feel
I’ve committed my heart, my very soul
And will not forsake the hope of being whole

Look into my eyes
You will see no lies
Always and only truth
Faith without need of proof
Will to do anything to make
Whatever cost it take

Look into my eyes
Through the smiles or cries
You will see only truth
Never any lies
They show to my being
Show pain and when my heart sing

Look into my eyes
You will see no lies
Please
Look into my eyes.

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