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L'uomo è due uomini contemporaneamente: solo che uno è sveglio nelle tenebre e l'altro dorme nella luce

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Il vero giusto è colui che si sente sempre a metà colpevole dei misfatti di tutti

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categoria: Poesie » in lingua inglese

Death

Then Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of
Death."
And he said:
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart
of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day
cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open
your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea
are one.
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent
knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart
dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to
eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd
when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid
upon him in honour.
Is the sheered not joyful beneath his trembling, that he
shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and
to melt into the sun?
And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath
from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and
seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink form the river of silence shall
you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then
you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall
you truly dance.