A Hollow Note

Days full of wanting.
Let them go by without
worrying that they do.
Stay where you are inside
such a pure, hollow note.

~Rumi

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Listening to georoki's "symphony of sorrowful songs" , while life is drifting away ...drifting slowly and subtly , drifting as a gentle stream on a breezy afternoon.

Drifting while hoping not to encounter any torrents , any gushing columns of force , so as not to be broken before slipping into the dark chasm of eternal rest in this bottomless ocean.

And Death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Through they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

~Dylan


I've always adored this poem.