Sunday 20 November 2011

While Mortals Sleep


Delicately we carve out the details on how we wish to shape our lives. We're taking these tiny steps, one after another. Looking up slowly and turning away when we catch the eye of the smile greeting your own weary stare. Radiance is still too much to bare. You can always laugh with a hollow tune. There will forever be rain on the horizon because drought leads to pain. The cracks in the skin of the earth will be slowly healed, given the chance. Throw the water on too quickly, watch the freeze-thaw set in and sending you back to room 101. Does this mean we are trying? Working for something more than we ever dreamt the darkness would deliver. Up in the clouds, not caring for the dangers the sun presents (even though we are secretly willing to burn). I remember not to question the journey of others.

I heard there was this ideal, something to do with staying and never leaving. But we are only on borrowed time - all the doctors know that. You can see it in their eyes. Getting so tiresome of explaining the meaning of feelings so you can diagnose with paper and pen.
What if the blade slips and we cut out the good parts without meaning to? Does that make us foolish or simply human? If you do not recall them as 'good' then surely you have missed nothing at all.

Let's dance amongst the stars, they'll be distant at first but as you welcome them in they grow ever closer.

"O, thou art fairer than the evening's air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars,
Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter,
When he'd appear'd to hapless Semele,
More lovely than the monarch of the sky
In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms,
And none but thou shalt be my paramour"


Can you hold my hand, just not too tightly?
Remain on your mind.
Take something old and make it incredibly relevant.
It has hypophrenia written all over, and with so memory does improve greatly.
Would you like to know a secret?

Darling, you.

3 comments:

  1. "What if the blade slips and we cut out the good parts without meaning to? Does that make us foolish or simply human? If you do not recall them as 'good' then surely you have missed nothing at all."

    This last line resonates with me Mhairi. I think of an animal born into captivity; if it never knows the freedom of venturing across open spaces does it miss it?

    "Would you like to know a secret?"

    Yes, always. Once more I find myself lost in the mystery and intrigue that is you. Wonderful you. xo

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  2. Once again you make me fall in love with the words and break my heart.

    The terror of that 'what if'. What if her blade slips and she cuts her light out Forever? We left with the fading memory of a dazzling brightness in the darkness that remains.

    Yesterday I went for a walk in the pissing rain and saw more beauty in 10mins of drenching downpour than I'd seen in the previous 10 months. (Maybe because all the noisy annoying people were inside nursing their hangovers)

    http://youtu.be/RYeXu7JfYHU

    I absolutely adore Within Temptation, and the conflict of imagery in this post reminded me of this video.

    Love you <3

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  3. Tell me something I do not know yet, dear. Tell me something I'm not suppose to know.

    You are beautiful and this! This is stunning.

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Thank you for your words.