Double-Helix

Death in my left hand, possibility in my right.A battle without mercy; a power unknown throughout the centuries.Like a pendulum I swing in and out of life.In one instant I am overwhelmed by the sensation of coming death, another I can't wait to drink from the lap of infinite life!

                    Satyr of knowledge
                  Play your lyre of silk desire
                Pour your ancient wine on the little rhyme
                That matches her eyes with the night skies.

So I sing, like a bird hidden from earth and remorse.In a vague silence the winds of continents send me visions: Beautiful women, wild dances, lapping fields, shivering embraces.And I live them even before the winds pass by.

There is always so much that can happen!

"Death is never far away", whispers the robin from the hidden forests.For the first time, always for the first time, I taste fear.Vast emptiness, forcing its way through calendars and minds; it digs deep in the youngest pain and thrives like shrubbery on a garrigue forgotten by the monsoon.

Why is an excitement for novelty always so hand in hand with fear of the end?

Ah they are both positive! Discovering there is so much to be done is just as wonderful as fearing you will have the opportunity taken away.

Like a clown I will keep jugglin death and excitement, just to remember: this is life.

I will keep my eyes open for all the beauty that might come, even if I must see them through tears.