I once met a man and asked him if it were true that when you get older you become wiser. He said that the only answer was to get older. Looking back to when I was a kid, I realize that my ignorance was a virtue. I saw the world in colors and shapes. Now my nerves keep me awake at night. I think about the future and what I want to do with my life. I asked the same man if he had any advice for me. He told me to quit living and start breathing. "Look around at the life you lead. Listen to the wind and to the trees. Take time to smell the ocean breeze and sleep on the beach." He said that the beauty of this world was in its complexity and that our lives for the most part are ordinary. He told me to never stop painting, but mostly never stop creating. "You're as free as your mind will let you be. So, what's holding you back," he said, "fear or laziness?"

~Derrick W Sherman, The Reunion Show~
ignorance = fear = hatred

assume nothing- question everything.

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"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE."

--(Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)

anathema's Works

Poetry	2004-06-18	horrorshow (disgusted by reality)
Poetry	2004-05-31	and who's really to blame?
Poetry	2004-02-29	be honest with yourself and others
Poetry	2003-12-02	?-Vox populi est vox Dei-?
Poetry	2003-12-02	pursuit (of something real?)
Poetry	2003-10-23	too little too late (ode to a dead family + a child never young)
Poetry	2003-10-01	organic anarchy (revolution as an earth science)
Poetry	2003-10-01	a ditty for Ophelia (madness makes me a poet)
Poetry	2003-10-01	Suicidal Study (or why i dropped the knife)
Poetry	2003-10-01	Compare/Contrast (or the perils of popularity)
Poetry	2003-09-29	slit your wrists- it lowers your blood pressure (debate)
Poetry	2003-09-10	the scent of clouds about to burst (sensuality of the skies)
Graphic Art	2003-09-02	shadows run through my blood like morphine (study of a life)
Poetry	2003-08-30	on the road to salvation
Poetry	2003-08-18	we all get one life (what are you going to do with it?)
Poetry	2003-07-24	tears fall like bodies in the battle for power
Poetry	2003-07-24	spare change crosses and the miracle of overindulgence
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #13
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #12
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #11
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #10
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #9
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #8
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #7
Poetry	2003-07-09	disorderly- asylum door #6
Poetry	2003-07-08	disorderly- asylum door #5
Poetry	2003-07-08	disorderly- asylum door #4
Poetry	2003-07-08	disorderly- asylum door #3
Poetry	2003-07-08	disorderly- asylum door #2
Poetry	2003-07-08	disorderly- asylum door #1
Poetry	2003-07-08	different (like everyone else)

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