Friday, November 18, 2005

Here I Love You

Banda Aceh, 18 November 2005

"Here I Love You"
By Pablo Neruda

Here I love you.
In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.
The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters.
Days, all one kind, go chasing each other.

The snow unfurls in dancing figures.
A silver gull slips down from the west.
Sometimes a sail. High, high stars.
Oh the black cross of a ship.
Alone.
Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet.
Far away the sea sounds and resounds.
This is a port. Here I love you.


Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.
The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.
My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.
But night comes and starts to sing to me.

The moon turns its clockwork dream.
The biggest stars look at me with your eyes.
And as I love you, the pines in the wind
want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

illusion of control

We 've seen
how the ego want to fix,
to make things perfect,
to re order someone else's life,
and above all,
to do something to maintain
the illusion of control.

We' ve also seen
that in order to grow in our capacity to care for others,
a completely different response is requaired.

We need to take time
To sit still..
Quiet to mind..
and Listen deeply...
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"Action without contemplation is blind",Gandhi said.