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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dead, Dying and the Dreamer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Desire offered me a Joyful Blindness<br>new each time from the Caldron</div><div style="margin:10px 0">such that I succumbed each time<br>moved thereby<br>to cheat Death himself<br>accepting thereby the double<br>conundrum<br>that a too intense Desire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">can kill the Dream it inspires</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and sometimes too, kill the Dreamer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">condemning him or her perhaps<br>to surfing the tides of blowback</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Damocles Pillars of Blame and Time, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">seeing Fate toss dice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with his life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the back room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where secrets hold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sway</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and lie down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with Soothing Regrets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who utters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;It's not your fault.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where pressures are</div><div style="margin:10px 0">presented; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">where I get to </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> wed my Desire</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> where I get to</div><div style="margin:10px 0">go away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">into Indeterminate Time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and come back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">wondering where I have been</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and guilty bred I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">punish those ugly muses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which time and time again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">take me right back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to square one</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where next time I do it all over again; <br>Desire's slave or consort<br>undetermined<br>yet I am</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lashed to the mast</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of that runaway ship</div><div style="margin:10px 0">adrift with the tides</div><div style="margin:10px 0">destination unknown, uncertainty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until the Final One</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which is easily foreseen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in that scene</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where the Reaper laughs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">saying<br>&quot;In the end all come to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">some crying, some denying</div><div style="margin:10px 0">some defiant</div><div style="margin:10px 0">some bitter draught drinkers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of their erstwhile lives</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but all succumb</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to my dark web at end; <br>yet in this<br>none I resent more</div><div style="margin:10px 0">than types like you, &quot; he said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;who come plumped up smiling</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sated from Life's Desires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> irritating me the more than the others</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because those like you enjoyed their lives</div><div style="margin:10px 0">despite my entreaties</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that they should not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay they wed their desires<br>fulfilled them<br>willingly paying the price<br>in Despairs coin<br>because you see my friend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Dreamers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cheat me<br>Death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even after they are dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A secret well known</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but seldom recognized; <br>if you kill the dream, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you, too, have killed the dreamer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and their death my friend<br>is final; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but in those like you<br>those with the capacity for rampaging Desire<br>preceding the dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cheat me Death<br>and you are my mortal enemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better you humans not understand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that the secret is<br>better to over-sip</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Desire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">than not to desire at all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">than not</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to Dream at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Desireless</div><div style="margin:10px 0">are the ones I crave<br>because they come to me already dead.<br>I like the one's who have spent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">their lives self-denied</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because they become<br>for me my dead and docile<br>and are easily plied</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Into my Marching Lines<br>of the Well-Disciplined<br>and<br>truly<br>Dead Now and Gone.<br>The Dreamers<br>alas, <br>I've learned<br>cheat me Death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because their Dream lives on<br>and on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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new each time from the Caldron

such that I succumbed each time
moved thereby
to cheat Death himself
accepting thereby the double
conundrum
that a too intense Desire

can kill the Dream it inspires

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