Tuesday, December 2, 2008

                                        WHAT  THE  MOUSE  FORGOT

Hardship
on this particular
planet of sorrows--

Building yet 
another
platform

of the heavens--
ever
as it seems

here  upward

                                                                            *

the choice
was made
for me
to continue
in my ruin
by the stars--

since I am
in this ruin
because I
was not wise
enough to
rule the stars

                                                                         *

I is someone--

not necessarily
else--

                                                                          *

sorry--

didn't recognize you 
without your mask

                                                                           *

what the cat remembered
was what the mouse forgot

                                                                           *

If you could figure out
your destiny--
your destiny would
no longer be--

                                                                           *

This was to be
the last mistake
of a previous series
instead of
the first
of a new one--

                                                                           *

what we think 
we know
takes a lifetime
(or more) to be
disabused---

                                                       _____________________

                                                      SAYINGS    OF    HEAVEN

A lifetime's sins require a lifetime's penance--

                                                                            *

The content of our days are our soul's substance--

                                                                            *
Sayings of heaven have no hearing on earth--

                                                                            *

Knowledge unused is sin--flowing from the Dragon's Tail---no protection or forgiveness--no mercy--until every whit or neglect is paid--

                                                                            *

The meek give strength to the mighty--so beware the weakness of the strong--

                                                                            *
Who would block the way will be blocked--and who leads astray will be led astray--

                                                                            *

What we do is uniquely our own--what is done to others belongs to each of us--

                                                                            *

It took a lifetime to think of nothing--and an instant to forget everything--

                                                                            *

Only in forgetting ourselves--are we most who we are--

                                                                            *

In pleasure we forget pain--in pain we forget pleasure--when the heart can forget these distinctions the mind will remember its undivided source---

                                           _____________________________

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