The Mold (written Jan 10, 2008)
I put my trapped life on hold
to lay back, observe, and rinse away the mold.
Though the stain will still leave the glass discolored,
I would rather rip away the hurt
than leave these heavy layers uncovered.
It is not enough to be loved;
one must be understood.
Bury Your Dead (written around Jan 4, 2008)
Those who do not bury their dead
will feel the fury of memory at their windowsills
and no matter how hard you slam down the glass
the shutters will still murmur their utterances.
There is no need to avoid the gravesite,
you sleep with a corpse next to your head
and when you reach out to caress the body you once loved,
it will reek of a dead man's scent.
So be it, your misgivings were so unfairly placed
upon the living, but when the phantom's touch instead
becomes a choking clutch, you will have wished
you had left the dead buried.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passers-by only see a wisp of smoke from the distance and continue on their way.
~Vincent Van Gogh
It is just in learning to suffer without complaint, in learning to look on pain without repugnance, that you risk vertigo, and yet it is possible, yet you may even catch a glimpse of a vague likelihood that on the other side of life we shall see good reason for the existence of pain, which seen from have sometimes so fills the whole horizon that it takes on the proportions of a hopeless deluge. We know very little about this, about its proportions, and it is better to look at a wheat field, even in the form of a picture.
~Vincent Van Gogh
It's not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce.
~Voltaire
If we don't find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
~Voltaire
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
~Voltaire
Minds differ still more than faces.
~Voltaire
The heart is simple; fixing it is complicated. ~Tadpole the movie
(Jan 13, 2008)
On the flip side of sadness, there is anger.
My skull is burning. I long to die.
Swimming through the universe, one light-year at a time.
NCG 4631 "The Whale Galaxy"
