Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Remorse

Time consumes us with fear,
Age is unstoppable and strong,
A soft wrinkle lines your face,
A small trickle runs down from your old eyes,

Age does not care about my feelings,
And the flock of sheep in your dreams slow,
One by one they age and die,
Leaving gaps in your dreams, and in mine,

My dreams, which filled my nights,
And your days burst like rotting carcasses,
The blood will return to the dirt,

And when it does,
The constant raining, longing,
Will cease, waiting to remove all remorse…

sonnet XCI
Age covers us like drizzle,
Time is interminable and sad,
A salt feather touches your face,
A trickle ate through my shirt.

Time does not distinguish between my hands
And a flock of oranges in yours,
With snow and picks life chips away,
At your life, which is my life.

My life, which I gave to you, fills
With years like a swelling cluster of fruit,
The grapes will return to the earth.

And even down there time
Continues, waiting, raining
On the dust, eager to erase even absence.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Brave new world Q's.

The use of pharmaceutical drugs in our society is fine. But we have to learn the fine line of when its ok, and when its not. Is the sideaffect of the drug to much, is it really worth it? A lot of medicine in our society is abused, and taken for granted. We feel a little sick so we go to the doctor and we are prescribed a pill. Pharmecutical drugs and harmful to many but we are dependent now. We have to use them. many people must stay on drugs to stay alive. Take for instance diabetics, they must take insulin shots to balance out there blood sugar. Without the shots they would get very sick, and or die. Cancer needs chemotherapy, without this drug all cancer patients would most certainly die, unless given another treatment. So we cannot take away the drugs because we are dependent, but are they really helping?