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tuff.
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
At rest on a stair landing,
They feel it
Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship,
Though the swell is gentle.
And deep in mirrors
They rediscover
The face of the boy as he practices tying
His father’s tie there in secret
And the face of that father,
Still warm with the mystery of lather.
They are more fathers than sons themselves now.
Something is filling them, something
That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses.
— Donald Justice
beautiful, thanks for sharing.
you might like Bataille's essay, "Hegel, Death and Sacrifice".
oh interesting, ill check it out!
You think it's bad in middle age, wait until you are truly old.
Well said. Decisions are hard. I think ultimately we humans may need some mythos or fiction that things will work out, at least at the early levels.
I don’t quite get the stuff about gods becoming man but hey I’m a Christian so you know I love it. ;)
tuff.
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
At rest on a stair landing,
They feel it
Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship,
Though the swell is gentle.
And deep in mirrors
They rediscover
The face of the boy as he practices tying
His father’s tie there in secret
And the face of that father,
Still warm with the mystery of lather.
They are more fathers than sons themselves now.
Something is filling them, something
That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses.
— Donald Justice
beautiful, thanks for sharing.
you might like Bataille's essay, "Hegel, Death and Sacrifice".
oh interesting, ill check it out!
You think it's bad in middle age, wait until you are truly old.
Well said. Decisions are hard. I think ultimately we humans may need some mythos or fiction that things will work out, at least at the early levels.
I don’t quite get the stuff about gods becoming man but hey I’m a Christian so you know I love it. ;)