A Medley of Thoughts

Abide (a poem)

“I hold it true, whate’er befall;

The mystery is that the world is as it is — a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Inexorable

“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.”

“The chimera of fear is that evil, apish kobold who leaps on to the back of man at precisely the moment he is already bearing the heaviest burden.”

Time’s Anatomical Coloring Book (a poem)

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly — that is the first law of nature.”

Prompt #5402