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

Jan 14, 2010

Hello Walls

Hello Walls
How’s it going
Are you doing OK today
Is it OK
If I share
The hours that fade away

Spider with a web
Sulking in the corner
Collecting only dust
Content to wait another day
Something might
Happen by on fates path
Really matters not
Spider really has not say
Corner where it lurks
That is the entire world
No draw to venture
Only wait the imagined prey

Hello Mirror
Who is that face
What brings him here today
Did he step in
To this dream
That never fades away

Ant crawls
Up the wall
Drawn in a direction
Without a rhyme
Choices he seems
To make his own
But the destination
Is the same each time
To meet that spider
Where she lurks
Never knowing
For what crime

Hello memories
In my head
What brings you here today
Did I see
A trinket past
Of a thought that will not fade away

Another morning
May have dawned
Behind that window
In the world of others
That shape though
Does its job
Like hope
All light it smothers
That world of lies
Fictions called hopes
They cannot reach
This cave of covers

Hello Walls
How’s it going
Are you doing OK tonight
Is it OK
If I share
The hours too long to fight.



Jan 2010
Posted by Gooseman at 2:13 PM

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