"Life is meant to be lived forward and understood in reverse" Soren Kierkegaard
because time is not a matter of good and bad
or of light and dark, it is choices and degrees
choices are like moments, they pass like faint stars
or sometimes like the shadows of giants across your window
and you lay in your bed, scared of what will happen next
are you scared? i ask you, are you scared?
fear is not like fire, nor like a rushing wind
just a silent darkness, glue for your feet
it may turn out that way. that your sheets are water and your pillow a raft
and my scattered thoughts are jewels in your bitter margin.
no sun, but not to worry.
she will reappear.
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our lives are a battle.
not to the death, but to the life.
we fight to keep our heads above water
above the salve of lust, or materialism
that dulls the pain, or stills the racing mind.
we fight to stay alert. we fight the sleep of entertainment
and the satisfaction of education.
we are an at-risk demographic. endangered, in the crosshairs.
so please, keep fighting. stay alert. stay in the ring.
for that is when we truly feel alive. that is when we bleed the reddest blood
--and the sky its bluest blues
that is when the world is most beautiful. and let me tell you, that is when we experience the life of Christ in us, and it is at those times when the world is its most beautiful.
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