"good enough" is a dangerous phrase
enticing, alluring and yet, despite its meaning always falls short of satisfying it feels impossible to achieve and impossible to live without perhaps if it were easier to identify - Atlas
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well, I did it
it's out of my hands now and though it took quite a bit, yes, quite a lot I'm grateful that I did it that I gave it my best shot ho hum - Atlas please put your gas mask on
before helping other people oxygen deprivation has made your vision blur made you think my nose and mouth were higher on my face than they were I only got one gulp of air before your shaking fingers dislodged the work I'd done so far. / / / / I came to your for help, for reassurance but you were so lost in your own pain that I ended up helping you instead. I am happy to do it, but it does not make me want to turn to you again. two poems about the same thing--I wasn't sure which one I liked more so I'm posting both of them - Atlas but what about the oral history
we pass down to ourselves the history that tells us who we are, who we've been and what we want to remember I feel like there's something interesting in this idea but I'm not sure if I managed to tease it out in this poem I may revisit it someday, who knows - Atlas tell me,
what am I supposed to do when everything I am supposed to do takes longer than it used to blegh - Atlas I do not want to ask people
to believe in me, I want them to do it by themselves. sometimes this makes it rather difficult to ask for help especially if I think that putting faith in me would be misplaced - Atlas In the pursuit of wisdom,
you will become confused. In the pursuit of confusion, you will become wise. maybe we become what we do not realize we want to be (can you tell I've been reading the Tao recently) - Atlas |
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