Cradle of web

Cradle of web
Cradle of age
Break through
Ageing is growing, too.

By design

By design

I live

and evolve,

Age patterns.

Fragility

Fragility

of thoughts

that can add years.

"A star ...."

A star at dawn,

a bubble in a stream,

a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,

a flickering lamp,

a phantom and a dream,

so is the fleeting world.

Diamond Sutra

"To fear death ...."

To fear death 
is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. 
For it is to think one knows what one does not know. 
No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be 
the greatest blessings of human beings. 
And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Socrates

"Let there be silence sometimes ...."

Retreat

Let there be silence sometimes,

A space of starless night –

A silence, a space of forgetfulness

Away from seething of lives,

The rage of struggle.

Let there be a time of retreat,

A hiding of the sun and all colours,

For the soul to ride at ease in darkness;

For the coldness of no-life

To soothe life’s burning.

Let there be rest

For wearied eyes to ease their labour

And wander across great distances,

For the spirit to slip the chain of hours

And drift in Atlantic waves of time.

Grant peace;

For a space let there be no roar

Of wheels and voices, no din

Of steel and stone and fire.

Let us cleanse ourselves from the sweat and dirt,

Let us be hushed, let us breathe

The cold sterile wind from colourless space.

Richard Aldington