Out of danger?

Out of Danger

Heart be kind and sign the release
As the trees their loss approve.
Learn as leaves must learn to fall
Out of danger, out of love.

What belongs to frost and thaw
Sullen winter will not harm.
What belongs to wind and rain
Is out of danger from the storm.

Jealous passion, cruel need
Betray the heart they feed upon.
But what belongs to earth and death
Is out of danger from the sun.

I was cruel, I was wrong -
Hard to say and hard to know.
You do not belong to me.
You are out of danger now -

Out of danger from the wind,
Out of danger from the wave,
Out of danger from the heart
Falling, falling out of love.

- James Fenton

Dreams....

"That passed quickly, the ways dreams do on waking...but he never forgot the feeling itself, that almost swooning sensation of grace for once fulfilled and delivered instead of promised and denied; that feeling of clarity and sweat, marvellous love; that feeling of ecstacy at the coming once more of the white"

- The Talisman, Stephen King

darker within

"The tragedy of love is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last"

"He knew that it didn't make for an equal relationship, that a constant uncritical kindness could in its subtle condescension be as oppressive to the loved one as cruelty or neglect. Was this how he bolstered his ego, by the knowledge that he was needed, depended upon, admired for a compassion which when he looked at it with honest eyes was a particularly subtle form of emotional patronage and spiritual pride? Was he any better than Gerard, for whom sex was part of his personal power game...."

- Original Sin, P. D. James

Back

Sometimes its important to return to the core - and remind yourself of what you believe in

From quiet homes and first beginnings,
Out to the undiscovered ends;
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter, and the love of friends.

- Anon

Decision making tool

As I am suddenly faced with a barrage of choices - professional, personal and emotional - I have encountered the perfect decision making tool...that appears deceptively simple, but is actually an intelligent combination of guts n luck - which is what life is all about anyway.

A Pyschological Tip

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.

No - not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping

-- Piet Hein

Cocoons of pain?

Contribution from Ankit...and unnervingly timed.

"It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others."

- Sheldon VanAuken's (A Severe Mercy)