The Door

I've been tagged. Not sure what that means but, as the saying goes, if you unclench your fist I will extend my hand.

I think it works like this..er...you post a few lines (your own or from a poem or something) that 'rings true for you' (yeah, that's it, or was it that you treat me to a cinnamon roll). Okay, jeez, I'm under pressure already since I'm not sure I even know three live bloggers (damn that Roxana!..probably some ancient Romanian curse on me if I don't comply)

So, I tag Anton, Celia, and Ali Hasnain (if you're still around..do you even have a blog?)

Now, what do I do again?

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Pleasure is the fundamental awareness of reality.
---Hannah A.

There is no moment when I forget you, except the days when I do.
There is no redemption of time, except when there is.

The Door?

First forget what time is
for an hour.

What can you learn by heart? A rose is not a rose, though each thorn draws blood. The rose is but fire, flickering time, sometimes ablaze with longing. The red mourns the loss of the blue. But listen: what once was, always is. Here, love wears forbidden colours; there, across the bridge, through the mist, beyond the garden is a door that leads to a white room. Mark it well.

There, you will find time within time, like silence within silence. And a black mirror. When you look at you, you will think of me, speak our common name. There will be an end to the granting of names. Like two stars in the day, or gold coins on the sand, invisible, except to one another. I will be me, except when I won't. A broken circle, or something that rings true for you.

Coming into the high room again after years
after oceans and shadows of kills and
the sounds of lies
after losses and feet on stairs

after looking and mistakes and forgetting
turning there thinking to find
no one except those I knew
finally I saw you
sitting in white
already waiting

you of whom I had heard
with my own ears since the beginning
for whom more than once
I had opened the door
believing you not far

(quotes from W.S. Merwin and Paul Celan)