My transition from cluttered to simple living.

Friday, November 6, 2009

My Condolences to Our Friends South of the Border.

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

    by Dylan Thomas

    Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
    Because their words had forked no lightning, they
    Do not go gentle into that good night.

    Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
    Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight
    And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way
    Do not go gentle into that good night.

    Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
    Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    And you, my father, there on the sad height,
    Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


    As the world hears of the horrors that occur on a daily basis on some soil both near and far...as we awaken to the knowledge that our world is ill and diseased, and that what we once considered normal is no more... as we find ourselves looking harder and harder to find good in the people and the world that surround us...we wonder at times what our future holds for the possibility of peace and health...our personal and planetary peace and health....in our time. Are we approaching the end of our world as we knew it? Are we just to go softly into that good night?

7 comments:

  1. Yes, Wendy. Well said. It's like the whole world is sick, and I also wonder what the future holds for us, for all of us. Thanks for your poignant and timely post.

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  2. Wow... I agree with DJan. Thanks for visiting my blog. I must say, I never heard of Kidney Pie--

    Nothin like mom's homecooking.

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  3. Well Paula...my wish has a twist. I don't know how to make it so may mom would have to. She has moved on now so I wish i could have one more afternoon with her, and her steak and kidney pie.

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  4. Everything that is going on in the world today is very disheartening. I worry about our futures...all of us, all over the world. It is almost like everthing is crumbling around us.

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  5. I know... but Hugo's quote gives me comfort...

    "HAVE COURAGE FOR THE GREAT SORROWS OF LIFE AND PATIENCE FOR THE SMALL ONES; AND WHEN YOU HAVE LABORIOUSLY ACCOMPLISHED YOUR DAILY TASK, GO TO SLEEP IN PEACE. GOD IS AWAKE." VICTOR HUGO

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  6. Beautiful and timely, expresses what is in my heart Wendy, thank you for sharing....:-) Hugs

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