othelladub's Diaryland Diary

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clouds

"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."
- Che

I KNOW NOW THAT I DON'T

I know now that I don't know.
Life is fleeting. Ambition and lust are our enemies. Success is false.
Her lips made me weep.

Quivering with failure, Rhett looked out upon the valley.

Scarlett. Where?

My friends - where have you gone?
And where did I go? I left myself back there. Real life - the life away from cyberspace, from livejournal, from myspace. What have I lost?

Sparse. Choppy. Direct. Hemingway.

Where is that place?

Where can my heart be pure again?

Where can I find forgiveness?

Where can I find peace?

I don't want to be pretty anymore.
I just want to be free of it.

There's a weight I carry. It is not much. Many more have carried more.

But I need to be free.

Love is that freedom.

And I have so far to go.