"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



Thursday, April 24, 2014

Dislocation 

“There is a moment before impact that is the last instant of things as they are. Then the visible
 world explodes.”  
~ Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo


Thin lines
Entwined together 
A rope of life
Over and over 
Thicker and thicker
Layer upon layer 
Of familiarity 
Of knowing
Of being comfortable together
Sedimentary rock formations 
Formed together 
Over time
Over space
Naturally
Without thinking life merges and forms
Within the seconds of normalcy
In a moment 
It all dislocates
An emotional explosion
Rips and shreds the rope
Crumbles and shakes the rock
Nothing intact 
Nothing protected 
Debris strewn over the landscape of an existence
What would of been tomorrow
Ceases today
In the space between then and now

 

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