read this poem, thought it was cool, so...i post....

Jul 21, 2005 23:06

The Birth Of Venus

Midway along the journey of our life,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
For I had wandered off from the straight path.
How hard it is to tell what it was like,
This wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn.
Even the thought of it brings back all my old fears.
A bitter place, death could scarce be bitterer…

The hour was early in the morning then,
The sun was climbing up with those same stars
That had accompanied it on the world’s first day,
The day Divine Love set their beauty turning:
So the hour and sweet seasons of creation
Encouraged me to think I could get past…

In that abyss I saw how love held bound
Into one volume all the leaves whose flight
Is scattered through the universe around;
How substance, accident, and mode unite,
Fused, so to speak, together, in such wise
That this I tell of: one simple light.

life has a funny way of slapping you in the face with the smallest most insignificant things, like an object or an image, u take a glance at it and think nothing of it, and then u do a double take and its like a SLAP in your face, and once again the bitter reality of a situation, the grim truth is brought to light only to be subsided by ur total want and need of happiness, so u choose to ignore it but later when ur all alone and u have nothing to do and ur brain gets a chance to let itself fall into thought, your thoughts....it comes back to you once again like a slap in the face but this time u cant ignore it with anything because ur alone....and reality finally sets it, but it all comes back down to the same exact question, that has been there from the start, what would you do? what would you choose if doing the right thing meant being unhappy and being happy meant not doing the right thing...
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