"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, September 17, 2015

Could It Be



"It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it."
~ Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea


The riddle unraveled
The storm subsided

The ship in the harbor

(could it be?)

In the blindness of hopelessness
Curled on the floor
Surrounded by impostors
With empty words

(could it be?)

All along
In every moment
In every place
The whispers
The touch in the night

You...
A soft spirit stirring

You...
Lightning striking a cold heart
Love exploding like rolling thunder


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