Thursday, September 28, 2006

Sunday, September 24, 2006

"What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indefferent to you? The conditions for your existence are as old as the rocks. For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man-or women-sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying of the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. Was he someone else? Was it not you yourself? What is this Self of yours?"
-Erwin Schrodinger

the 26th Hymm: attributed supposedly to Kirk Patrick

next to your confused vision filled with haze
work your way out of your own maze

and see the universe before you, living and now
it is truly not a question of how

it is a dance of things
both ancient and new
of things long gone
and things still to do

like a flower that will wilt in some coming hour and like a streaking light in a meteor shower
there are things that come and go
but like the universe, and time herself
there will be some that will always know

so come down and follow the road,
to the bend where even time has slowed

it is there where you find
it is there you will smile and begin your climb
to the lost archives of your mind