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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour)."
... Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-American novelist ... excerpt from his memoir "Speak Memory"
This is the life of men on earth:
ReplyDeleteOut of darkness we come at birth
Into a lamplit room, and then -
Go forward into dark again.
Where you were
ReplyDeletebefore you were born,
and where you are
after you´re not anymore
might be very close.
Might be the same place,
though neither is
as slippery
as being here but
imagining where
you will have been --
that point
where things land,
are finished, over and
gone but not yet.