Sunday, July 31, 2022

Written Into History

 

Couldn’t see self—beauty, nor ugliness, quite young. Time is intimate with aging. Data lagged in space. To locate self, I had to unlock clarity—harder in awakening. Looking for origin, self-splayed, torpor lingering, misery becoming happiness, as defended in philosophy.

While more is seduced, less seems fulfilling, if thought pursues a labyrinth; increased silence, decreased centering, the culture of the winds: too whimsy, defies control.

            Most creative muse—to sound pensive—to redo birth, several times in life. Faced by the machinery     under memories     traipsing into déjàvu     moving into nostalgia.

            No greater triumph—than winning the war of 24 hours—the celebration of those minutes, faced by a galloping monster.

            Out of pessimism comes hope—if willing to train—both thought and faith—to build beyond fear, to outwit despair, on realistic pegs.

            The fever is inherited, becoming familiar, settling into a dynasty: to have been written into creeds.        

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