Grab The Blade

6/24/2019

GRAB THE BLADE

(Them)
We have arrived
To offer this gift
Grab the blade
And shatter the myth

(ME)
Who are you?
What is this curse?
Take your blade
Leave with your kith

(Them)
You are the chosen
The one who will bring the end
Seize the kris
Please slit your wrist

(Me)
You must be mistaken
I am no such person
Something is amiss
Please lower your fist

(Them)
We know what is
The deeds you shall do
Hand to hilt
Here you shall wilt

(Me)
What tales you weave
Of the future lies
Leave the knife
And with your life

(Them)
We beckon you
Please heed the signs
Here is the edge
You are close to the ledge

(Me)
You are more bees
Than the sweet of honey
I need not your steel
To make you my meal

(Them)
Oh gods
We are too late
This hallowed dagger
Will no longer stagger

(Me)
I have awaited
The pawns of the fearful
With something sharp
To tear you apart

(Them)
We have failed
To stop the end
We wield our knives
To end our lives

(Me)
I will watch
As you and they
Fall upon your dirk
While I doom the world with my work

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QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)