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

Jun 17, 2009

I am

I am
A person meant only to serve
One who gives all that is asked
Seems never to come out ahead
A nothing all feelings masked

I am
One without merit even to be
Being with an existence uncounted
One who is tossed aside without thought
With every effort only discounted

I am
A mere after thought at best
An invader in the world of others
But out of place in this existence
Outcast on the path that smothers

I am
A trivial toy to fill idle time
A placeholder to fill a void
Of so little value one need not
Even look back or be annoyed

I am
What I have always been
Knowing what is my task
Not expect or receive
Only do what is asked
Such as I am


G - April 2009
Posted by Gooseman at 1:54 PM

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