"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Abyss...

“…if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
~  Friedrich Nietzsche
 
(Photo: Christopher Fletcher)
 
Are you afraid?
Of symmetry and opposites
 To look
To stare
Not at a pleasant pool like Narcissus
But at the unveiling of your soul
In the abyss
Which stares back
Not a reflection
An interrogation
Of darkness and light
Of love and hate
Within self and God
 
 
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