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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 8, 2011 3:02:45 GMT -6
In every life there comes a moment Poised between what was and what may be - A pause in which our lives draw to a silence profound As everything freezes And there, on a pinnacle waiting We cannot tell if our world Is about to come apart and fall Into that dark oblivion of sleepless night Or if it is drawing together To take anew some form As of yet unseen.
The past is gone and beyond our reach The future is unknown and beyond our control The present only do we have and yet This too seems to lurch as if with a mind of its own And we, helpless to effect it, must stand Silent and breathless As the gyre of desolation spins wildly And the pieces of our lives are drawn Into its vortex And slowly swept away Beyond our grasp.
We are left, forlorn and forsaken And if that gyre should widen enough Then we too might cease and know no more Lost in the blackness between what we hoped And what we found As uncaring, the Universe looks upon us As nothing more than a fragment No longer needed for some greater purpose And now discarded, our part played out.
And if perchance there had been some moment When a better choice we might have made That moment is lost and we must hope If even hope we still might have That some benevolent hand might yet, Seeing our plight, snatch us up And save us from this final fate Lest this spirit end its journey Making way for the next to begin.
Copyright March 10, 2001
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 8, 2011 3:06:51 GMT -6
Well, Tim, it seems that you, Deb and I have all been bitten by the same insomnia bug! I like this a lot, it seems to fit my mood and the general mood of the forum tonight. Good write!
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 8, 2011 3:16:07 GMT -6
I am mostly a creature of the night - I have worked at many jobs that put me on graveyard shifts and found I rather liked the night and now I tend to being up late. Glad you like the poem though it is a bit of a somber mood so I am not sure if the fact it fits your mood is good or not on the other hand, if this is your mood tonight then I'm happy to give expression to thoughts that fit it
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 8, 2011 4:41:55 GMT -6
Before I wrote this poem I did a picture and I thought maybe I should have posted it. Now gyre literally means circle, though generally it refers to circular motion or a vortex such as a tornado or whirl pool but it is not always quite so obviously spinning. The picture I did has a galaxy in the background but it is not spiral in shape however it is technically a gyre - I mention this because it has caused some confusion in the past. In human history a gyre refers to the belief that history runs in cycles and when these cycles align there is some great change or major event that will happen - I used this idea applied on a more personal scale - not centuries of human history but only the life of the individual for the poem but I was also using the picture as a sort of metaphor for life.
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