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 6, 2008

Pit

Normalcy
Peacefulness
Life that seems unreachable
Goal that seems unrealistic

Fallacy
Fantasy
Someone else’s reality
Denied to we who seek it

Stability
Levelness
A state of life that does not exist
Simply a delusion of mind and soul

Catatonic
Comatose
Beat into their submission
Force into a state of compliance

Happy
Content
Self-denial of the facts that are
Belief in a place that died with innocence

Deception
Delusion
A pretence of a shadow that to others is real
A lie to myself that there is a chance to be

Hope
Dreams
An illusion of the future
A distorting carnival mirror

Fiction
Fantasy
A belief in that which never will be
A fleeting feeling that quickly betrays

Dreams
Illusions
A wisp of a thought that fills a void
A self-deception against the truth

Despair
Desperation
To escape the Hell that destiny has brought
To crawl out of the pit of nothing

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