

The World is Grand.A bullet is fired, the expansion of gas within a narrow cylinder propelling the projectile towards a grinning face as a warm breeze softly crosses its countenance. The sun is bright, the sky is blue, the world is grand. The face knows precisely what is about to occur, the projectile will collide, penetrating the flesh and bone, slicing through nerves and veins, yet it grins. Another face lies behind the projector of the bullet, its eyes narrowed, the skin relaxed, its countenance lacks any and all emotion. Amongst a crowd it lies, the faces around it solemn, sorrowful. These faces gazing onward feel they have failed their fellow man. They couThe World is Grand.


A Minor Struggle.There is a struggle tonight. It has persisted through many, and over many years, but there will not form a resolution. A resolution implies an end, a solution, a settlement of opinions, but opinions are never completely settled, and solutions never completely solve matters of opinion. And thus the struggle was hadA Minor Struggle.
Die for immortality?! exclaimed a youth, full of life and enthusiasm, clearly discounting the validity of this concept.
Yes, we must die. We will all eventually die, and yet, our spirits will not, this is how we shall be immortal, stated an older gentleman, calmly, and respect


An Enlightenment.Agleam was the brightly lit room as he entered. The entirety of it, shining, clean beyond belief, yet covered were the walls with layers of writing. The lowermost layers that could be seen were nearly illegible, the writing an atrocity to whomever taught the occupant of the room. As he looked around, he could not find the occupant of the room, but glancing downward, he discovered the floor was covered with writing, just the same as the walls. However, in large, bold letters, below his feet he found the message, Written on all the walls, even the so-called floors and ceilings are just horizontal walls!An Enlightenment.
Noting this, he


The First Automaton.At one time, we were all told or instinctively knew that we had only one life to live. Few would question that which seemed obvious, do not fix that which is not broken, as they say. However, why not? I often inquired this, especially when we are likewise told that killing is bad, and death is to be mourned, as it is a sad event, so I am told, I paused briefly, to let it sink into the fellows listening.The First Automaton.
They would insist that it is simply a natural sequence of events, we live only once, and we die only once. Although, they forget, the other natural response that could arise from that, that is to say, who would w
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"It is hard to imagine how Drizzt got out of that predicament, I know. But clearly, he has a contract. I imagine the orcs all stopping their assault directly and shouting "To the neighbors!!"
-Todd Lockwood
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.- H.P. Lovecraft
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"Come...Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."-Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman.
I really didn't think it was that great.
Thanks I guess.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.- H.P. Lovecraft
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"Come...Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."-Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman.
I appreciate your
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There's always a better poem just out of reach.
Words create situations [link]
The roots of the future run deep [link]
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Member of the following clubs =sunsets *Scapes-club *waterscapes-club
*natures-beauty-club
We often miss the small things in life as we rush through the day doing whatever we need to do to survive in this hectic world.
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♆ "When you first saw the seven candles you knew. You knew - but any Sidhe would have known in the magic of the reflections pulsing across the ceiling of the Elder's chamber,"♆
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