Sense of an ending

Same old, same old.
Love not coming
Stalled, incomprehensible
Present, there.
Not out of reach, but.
That which I already know
Unsatisfying.
How did I come to this?
Like a magnet set exactly
The opposite polarity.
A note of anger,
Unsettled. Unnerved.
Why do I bring this out
In people?
I must have let myself become
The wrong type of guy.
Perhaps I engage too much
In solitary activities.
Perhaps I have lost touch
With whatever life is about.

(06.07.12)

Agôn

Fought Death I have
Though much was destroyed
None was defeated.

(28/02/12)

Back to where we were before we started.

"Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born."

William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

Rainy. Sunday. Afternoon.

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

Susan Ertz, author (1894-1985)

Libertad

"Je m'entête affreusement à adorer la liberté."

Lettre à son professeur de rhétorique Georges Izambard, datée du 2 novembre 1870 (Rimbaud a alors 16 ans).

Arthur Rimbaud, poète, aventurier, explorateur, négociant (1854 - 1891)

In and out

"As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

Currents turn awry

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)

Nothing else?

"My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad."

Olive Schreiner, author (1855-1920)

Über-humanity?

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891)

Changing nonethelsss

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone."

Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)