Ponderable and poem for Monday, November 30, 2009
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Alan Harris
Nov 30, 2009, 1:19:44 AM11/30/09
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With every beat the heart is jumping for joy, though the mind may be doubting and pouting in heedless gloom.
Night Thoughts
Sleepless tonight inside my skin and bones,
I feel that life must be a cruel curse--
Begun with squall, cut off with pain and groans,
A little joke told by the universe.
Why am I here? What accident of fate
Breathed life into this form I occupy?
What kind of God would bother to create
A fragile human life, then let it die?
A voice within my heart says, "Mend your ways,
And light inside your consciousness will gleam.
Your bleakness, like the earth, delays dawn's rays,
But love and hope will end your desperate dream.
"Depression fills agnosticism's night,
But soon your soul must rise and follow light."
I feel that life must be a cruel curse--
Begun with squall, cut off with pain and groans,
A little joke told by the universe.
Why am I here? What accident of fate
Breathed life into this form I occupy?
What kind of God would bother to create
A fragile human life, then let it die?
A voice within my heart says, "Mend your ways,
And light inside your consciousness will gleam.
Your bleakness, like the earth, delays dawn's rays,
But love and hope will end your desperate dream.
"Depression fills agnosticism's night,
But soon your soul must rise and follow light."
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Alan Harris
You're invited to view two YouTube videos by Ine Braat based on my poems: "Mother's Secret," "Two Windows," and "Seeking until Found."
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