Array ( [sid] => 142042 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Negation [time] => 2008-05-01 10:16:40 [hometext] => I thought I'd post something, for old times' sake. This is about...well, nothing. Or, rather, nothingness. [bodytext] => I ponder in the blackest of night,
When the ponderings are plentiful
And the light is ne’er to be seen.

Such beauty to behold cannot be held,
Lest its beauty waste away.
No; it must be witnessed, received,
Protected from the sharpest of pens,
The brightest of torches.
Saved from understanding—
Saved from dissection.

No; it must be witnessed
In its darkest purity:
To be felt, to be heard—
To be witnessed.

Shed your light, your navigation,
Such fleeting luminosity
Of the Soul can but diminish
To be witnessed no longer.

No; you must ponder
In the blackest of night.
To understand nothing,
To create nothing,
And witness everything.

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Negation
Date: Thursday, 1st May 2008 @ 10:16:40 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: fielding88
I ponder in the blackest of night,
When the ponderings are plentiful
And the light is ne’er to be seen.

Such beauty to behold cannot be held,
Lest its beauty waste away.
No; it must be witnessed, received,
Protected from the sharpest of pens,
The brightest of torches.
Saved from understanding—
Saved from dissection.

No; it must be witnessed
In its darkest purity:
To be felt, to be heard—
To be witnessed.

Shed your light, your navigation,
Such fleeting luminosity
Of the Soul can but diminish
To be witnessed no longer.

No; you must ponder
In the blackest of night.
To understand nothing,
To create nothing,
And witness everything.



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