Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Spirit in the Soul



picture credit: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Spirit-32600341



How much of me belongs to that picture
of a smiling 5-year old, next to my father,
who fated to live through me once more;
and what about the images I built in my head
through listening as a loner, being shaped by knowledge
no-one could clarify for me, to chose the paths
that led to ecstasy and destruction;
or am I here because I am, an absorber of recklessness
and foresight alike, here, to dissolve those images
and seek the sphere where stillness exists,
where my spirit can lie down and rest.




4 comments:

  1. Beautiful and poignant! That image perfectly fits this piece.

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  2. Isn't interesting how seasons can close the years together and our lives converge in moments of memory that make it seem we have never really changed.

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  3. There's a difficult question in amongst the words. We seem to be lots of different beings - not just seven as Shakespeare suggests. But at the same time these different beings mould into one to make the whole - even though we are still that child next to our father.

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  4. Be assured that you are proclaimer of truths too deep for most to readily recognize.

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