hahhaha This sometimes happens to me !
Ahem ....
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
Playing For Change: Song Around the World "Stand By Me"
Dedicated to those who I will stand by and who will stand by me!
Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water!
I know the title is a corny line from an advert about a sequel to the horror shark movie Jaws that was perhaps the beginning of several horror movies like Anaconda and the likes of it .
What is it about being eaten alive or having parts of a person bitten off that is so fascinating that such movies become box office hits?
The line popped out at me after I began to see myself spiralling again to an emotional and mental state that I thought I had left behind so very many years ago .
Just when we taught we are so old that we have outgrown certain needs of the past , the needs come back stronger than ever .
Just when we thought we had become wise because of the additional years to our lives , we realise that it is just not so .
But I suppose in the very realisation lies the increase in awareness and perhaps being down in the dumps from knowing that I am a weak and faulty human ,I surrender myself and I then hold out my arms in helplessness and allow God to pull me up again....
SHADOW AND LIGHT
How does
a part of the world
leave the world?
How does wetness
leave water?
Dont' try to put out fire
by throwing on more fire!
Don't wash a wound
with blood.
No matter how fast you run,
your shadow keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front!
Only full overhead sun
diminishes your shadow
But that shadow
has been serving you.
What hurts you,
blesses you.
Darkness
is your candle.
Your boundaries
are your quest.
I could explain this,
but it will break
the glass cover
on your heart,
and there's no fixing that.
You must have
shadow and light source
both.
Listen,
and lay your head
under the tree of awe.
When from that tree
feathers and wings
sprout on you,
be quieter than a dove.
Don't even open your mouth
for even a coo.
Jelal'uddin Rumi - 13th century Sufi mystic and poet
From The Soul of Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks.
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