Fear, Death

It just makes one think of death. Even if your not it makes you think of all the people that are. Fear of the death of a loved one.


Fear, Death

Even though it will be alright
in the end
Death hurts even the strong
'til you can't cry
no more.
Fear in cases like this
might help you
realize what you have
so you can enjoy it more
right now.
Fear of the Death of not only body
but soul

One of my favorite poems

                                        

Drait-on  (French)
Abandon entoure d'abandon,
tendresse touchant aux tendresses...
C'est ton interieur qui sans cesse
se caresse, drait-on

se caresse en soi-meme,
par son propre reflect eclaire.
ainsi tu inventes le theme
du Narcisse exauce

Rainer Maria Rilke, form Les Roses

 The English translation by Barbara and Erica Muhl
Abandon surounding abandon,
tenderness touching tenderness...
Your oneness endlessly
caresses itself, so they say;

self-caressing
through its own clear reflection.
Thus you invent the theme
 of Narcissus fulfilled.

In addition to his vast output of German poetry, Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly 400 poems in French. He was born Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague. His childhood wasn't very happy. his mother treated him like the daughter she had lost after a week of life by dressing him up in girl clothes. His parents divorced in 1884. In 1897 in Munich he met the love of his life Lou Andreas-Salome and changed his name from Rene to Rainer from her urging that he needed a more masculine name. Go figure right?

Afraid

I'm afraid of a lot of things. Silly things as well as very real things. Silly things like the zombie apocalypse, the death of music and dance, gas explosions that kill my whole family but me. Things that should never happen. Then there's the real fears like the fact that we are all slowly dying, when my imagination that just goes out of control, deep water, well not deep water more like out in the ocean with all the fish and sharks etc... A kind of respectful fear for God and the heavens.  Fear of rock climbing, fear of being alone forever, fear of nuclear war, fear of the gray areas in life.