I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning - help me to breathe...

[klena]

Short short SHORT entry as I have to run out the door for work in about 10 to 15 minutes.

NEW PIECE OF ART DISPLAYED WILL BE:

(based upon)

SOUL

O who shall, from this dungeon, raise
A soul enslav'd so many ways?
With bolts of bones, that fetter'd stands
In feet, and manacled in hands;
Here blinded with an eye, and there
Deaf with the drumming of an ear;
A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains
Of nerves, and arteries, and veins;
Tortur'd, besides each other part,
0 In a vain head, and double heart.

BODY

O who shall me deliver whole
From bonds of this tyrannic soul?
Which, stretch'd upright, impales me so
That mine own precipice I go;
And warms and moves this needless frame,
(A fever could but do the same)
And, wanting where its spite to try,
Has made me live to let me die.
A body that could never rest,
Since this ill spirit it possest.

SOUL

What magic could me thus confine
Within another's grief to pine?
Where whatsoever it complain,
I feel, that cannot feel, the pain;
And all my care itself employs;
That to preserve which me destroys;
Constrain'd not only to endure
Diseases, but, what's worse, the cure;
And ready oft the port to gain,
Am shipwreck'd into health again.

BODY

But physic yet could never reach
The maladies thou me dost teach;
Whom first the cramp of hope does tear,
And then the palsy shakes of fear;
The pestilence of love does heat,
Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat;
Joy's cheerful madness does perplex,
Or sorrow's other madness vex;
Which knowledge forces me to know,
And memory will not forego.
What but a soul could have the wit
To build me up for sin so fit?
So architects do square and hew
Green trees that in the forest grew.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I look forward to it :D

[hartclanpaladin.livejournal.com]

The anon is me. I must of signed myself out.... :)

[klena.livejournal.com]

You are awesome husband! In more ways than one! XDDD

[hartclanpaladin.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[urbanelf.livejournal.com]

An interesting piece of verse. Where is it from?

[klena.livejournal.com]

By Andrew Marvell around 3-400 years ago? He's an awesome Metaphysical poet I studied last year!

[urbanelf.livejournal.com]

Metaphysics? Awesome. Much more for us to discuss in our eventual twining XD

I must learn more =)

[urbanelf.livejournal.com]

The art is eagerly awaited, though this may or may not go without saying, I shall say it.

[klena.livejournal.com]

Gods bless you love. xoxo

[urbanelf.livejournal.com]

And you. Forever, like a passionate embrace amidst a chilled night; warmth that feeds the body and soul, bodies' moistures that blessedly mingle to make a residue of delight that awakens the olfactories in appreciation..
You are a blessing of spiritually orgasmic proportion.
Your art strokes me the right way I should say <^_~>

[urbanelf.livejournal.com]

I made my whiskers backwards >@_@<