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A philosophical poem describing the course of an ordinary life from loneliness through passion, love, hate, loneliness again, and death.
© by Nicholas Gordon.
Video Music: Moonlight Sonata. By Ludwig van Beethoven. Music free to use at YouTube.
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A Life in Six Movements. Loneliness
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The hearts are desert fringed by distant mountains. Look, the wanderer has lost his way
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See where your restlessness has taken you, you who would not settle for your home
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Not even one cloud floats across to shade you. At night, you cannot share the brilliant stars. Time moves so slowly, you can scarcely bear it. Yet this you would prefer to feeling pain
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Passion We are the puppets of an inner master pastive playthings pulled along by passion seized by ecstasy and not let go until we tumble senseless on the strand O master bring to us that touch of heaven that icy fire that lights the whirling stars
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that moment that obliterates the moment, and play upon us with your golden hands. Love
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Did you know we can return to Eden and recreate the innocence of old
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and unashamed walk naked through the garden and take our pleasure in the sacred groves
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Love's a choice to step out of the self into sunlight into Eden's joy
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where we might hear them, music of our lovers and dance with them the dance of grateful giving Hate Betrayed Yes we think we are betrayed
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Oh, wander in hell, why do you suffer? There is no pleasure in your grim obsession
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nor release from pain, except through love. We must repeat again, again, again our livid curses
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curses, we lust for bitterness, and yet the people whom in savage dreams we boil in oil
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turn out to be ourselves. Indifference. The flames turned low, the cauldron merely simmers, the sky is overcast, it does not rain
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We sleep too much to sleep well. dreaming dreams more frightening and lustful than our days We wait for thunder lightning wait for rain in fear and hope with
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trembling and desire. We do not care. We care. We do not care. We do not care. We do not want to care
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But yes, we care. Loneliness again. O wanderer, At last you have come home
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The house is empty. Everyone is gone. Is no one with you
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What happened to your love? Never mind. Now it's all the same
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Don't worry. Nothing terrible awaits you. You are, and then you're not
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It's nothing more. Come, we'll take you to the dreaded line which though we're with you, you must cross alone
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