Functionally we need do nothing--just exist. To live without quiet suffering desperation we must listen. Then decide for ourselves to engage or abandon the issues of life and death as we wish for not merely ourselves but all, or merely the other, benign or malevolent.
Amending my harvest of Lao Tzu quotes I became aware that tho I might memorize them all I still will own none save the spirit directed towards. Then remembering a dream, a short story actually, amongst those journals I destroyed or abandoned; too memorable to ever forget like the face of my children in joy for what no photograph, memorable, could ever substitute.
Bereft soon this sojourn in hell, blown in winds, deserted high mountains of New Mexico alone. Leaving mered the ruins and runes of self-creation falling feathers and things unsubstantial scraps and building blocks always solo save for the inspiration to seek and be found forgiven my curiosity.
The city was a backwater in time, those once thriving sections of manufacture small family business littered with neglect now frozen. I stood for a time wondering in my wandering to enter or not a gym knowing nothing within. scabrous lockers dented peeling paint worn surfaces; one was mine eventually. When in wrestler tights and leotard I enterer the contest with he who ruled. Point for fall and point again the trial was long and eventually he vanquished to disappear my reign begun for a time frozen in success. Then another like myself long ago wanderer and wondering entered and entertained me in contest vanished prevailed upon to leave behind she who bested me.
Free at last to fly the galaxies still creating themselves alone in solitude best blest.
121106 12:14 Freedom = Lao Tzu = The Fargo Shredder
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