Wild Renewal

9/14/2019

A feeling
The weight of pain
That piecing flame
Searing ones spine

An old friend
Visiting once more
Summoned by folly
To teach once more

Wallowing
Torn by being driven
Injured with a want
Laying broken on the floor

It is imperative
Regardless of damage
To stay afloat
Stoking the coals yourself

Let not fear
Deter the journey
Threat and danger
Will find their way

Rest a moment
Staring from the cave
Hobbling in the dark
For this is temporary

Gaze upon earth
Trees battered by storms
Rocks cut by streams
Water frozen solid

Ruin is the gateway
The path of strength
Weather it
And be renewed

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THE MAD BARRON

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)