Know Thyself

 

Know Thyself

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;

The proper study of mankind is Man.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,

A being darkly wise and rudely great:

With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,

With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,

He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,

In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast,

In doubt his mind or body to prefer;

Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;

Alike in ignorance, his reason such

Whether he thinks too little or too much:

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;

Still by himself abused, or disabused;

Created half to rise and half to fall;

Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:

The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

~ Alexander Pope

Ignorance the enemy within

 

Dear Ignorance

Im supposed to make peace with you...

learn to live side by side...

dismiss what you've done.

I was content to ignore you,

to sidestep you,

to out run you,

and it seemed to work for a great many years.

I had almost forgotten you existed

in any meaningful way

then you made it a point to rise once again

and ravage relentlessly.

Some now even worship you

and call you friend.

Waging war on you just seems

to mean more bloodshed.

You've found allies in disease, fear, and loneliness

among others

and you've even come to look like some I care for.

I don't know what to do

but I fear in the end

there can only be you or I

... not we.

I don't know...

but i'm still searching for an answer

INTJ - When is the Future?

A stranger in a crowd

Treading fire after dark

Lost in a city

Pulsing to the sound

Of the spirit and soul
A city that is breathing

Living through the cables

Alive across the wires

Faces without names

Playing devils and angels

Lit up by the strobes

Moving hypnotized

I caught your reflection

In the neon on glass

An electric silhouette

Against a static sky

It's a beautiful dream

It's a beautiful life

It's just a reflection

A world I must survive

We're children of the past

Who look beyond today

Designing the present

So when is the future?

We live in a dream

Keeping visions alive

It's just a reflection

A world that never dies

The image we create

Now image we designed

It's a beautiful life

So when is the future?

Time moves so fast

In a single direction

Fighting with the present

Racing from the past

We're searching for something

That can never satisfy

The reality of answers

When lives are on the line

I've waited a lifetime

For the age of wonder

A place that I remember

In a splinter of time

A stranger in a strange land

Caught in the flow

Still searching for answers

Among the neon lights

It's a beautiful dream

It's a beautiful life

It's just a reflection

A world we must survive

We're children of the past

Who look beyond today

Designing the present

So when is the future

We live in a dream

Keeping visions alive

It's just a reflection

A world that never dies

The image we create

Now image we designed

It's a beautiful life

So when is the future?

It's a beautiful dream

It's a beautiful life

It's just a reflection

A world that must survive

We're children of the past

Who look beyond today

Designing the present

So when is the future

We live in a dream

Keeping visions alive

It's just a reflection

A world that never dies

The image we create

Now image we designed

It's a beautiful life

So when is the future?

~ 

VNV Nation - When is the Future?

The Knight

It's not what you say, 

It's what you do, 

not what you've done.

It's what you fight for, 

what you flee from, 

what you stay quiet about, 

what you speak of.

It's not who you've been, 

It's what you build, 

what you fail to build, 

what you lay waste to. 

It's who you help 

and who you abandoned.

Suspirium

This is a waltz thinking 

about our bodies

What they mean

for our salvation

With only the clothes

that we stand up in

Just the ground

on which we stand

Is the darkness 

ours to take?

Bathed in lightness, 

bathed in heat

All is well, 

as long as we keep spinning

Here and now, 

dancing behind a wall

When the old songs and laughter we do

Are forgiven 

always and never been true

When I arrive, 

will you come and find me?

Or in a crowd,

be one of them?

Wore the wrong sign

back beside her

Know tomorrow's

at peace

~ Thomas Edward Yorke

Mistress of Mystery

"I am mistress of all the sciences. 

I go so far beyond all else

 that my work is called 

magic. 

I manipulate noumena, 

regarding monads as points of entry tangential to hylomorphism. 

As to the paradox of Primary Essence

 being contained in Quiddity, 

the larger in the smaller, 

I have my own solution.

The difficulty is always 

in not confusing 

Contingency with Accidence. 

Do you understand me?"

....."Sure. You're a witch."

 ~ R. A. Lafferty,

Be Careful What You Wish For ..

Creaking Van Iddli Fla Lu Va

Pretty Sah Lu Feh Iddli Twu Ki Padi

Trelly Goilly Doilly Seli Pretty Chedi

Emi Swalin Gwoh

Seri Ferin Dorin Greh

Fairy Seiry Don

Sweedes Machin Twinky Doo

Fweeden Soret

Oosi An Tweeban Retiso

Neh-Neh Fehreeden

Sindwee Bin Doh

Swin Ting Lan Twenty Some Dring Doli

Sweet Lan Bih City Tran Dolinda

Pretty Leheleni Switi Kull

Meli Swimmin So

Emi Swalin Gwoh

Seri Ferin Dorin Greh

Fairy Seiry Don

Sweedes Machin Twinky Doo

~ Ending Credits- Coraline Soundtrack