Contemplation #2

[Pendragon]

Contemplation #2

Lookin’ for a bright tomorrow—
Livin’ though a dismal today.
Tryin’ to help someone else with their burdens—
When my own get in the way.
Tryin’ to reach the skies so very blue—
My eyes focus only on the ground.
Checkin’ to see if there’s a single ray of sunlight,
Skies all shrouded in with clouds.
Tryin’ to hope beyond these lonesome feelings—
See if I can dream somewhere beyond myself.
Lookin’ for all the answers to life’s many questions,
In some musty old book on a forgotten bookshelf.
Seekin’ for someway beyond all this confusion—
Beyond this sad and hopeless catch-22.
I know someday I’ll find all of my answers—
But where will I be when I finally do…
And will I be alive when I finally do…

D L Harris (Pen)
© 9/7/97 updated a bit 1/7/08

[blazeofglory]

Contemplation #2

Lookin’ for a bright tomorrow—
Livin’ though a dismal today.


These lines are really very interesting and I guess it has a great philosophy indeed.

Yes of course we sacrifice todays for tomorrows, but what we call tomorrows are uncertain in point of fact, and we must live for todays. Today is what we have at our command and tomorrows are simply hopes and nothing else. Let us make the best use of it.

I got really moved by these two lines.

[TheFifthElement]

This would make a wonderful song Pen, the music sings from the page.


Lookin’ for all the answers to life’s many questions,
In some musty old book on a forgotten bookshelf.

if you find that book, will you share it?

[Pendragon]

This would make a wonderful song Pen, the music sings from the page.



if you find that book, will you share it?Oh, yeah. I think we're all looking for it...We think we find it, only to either start questioning it or to allow others to make us start questioning it, be it The Bible or any other book. I think, Fifth, the fault lies not in the Book but in ourselves that we cannot stop questioning... ;) God Bless

[PrinceMyshkin]

I admire all the questions and the seeking tone - but think they are undercut somewhat by the faux-folksiness of the dropped "g"s.

[TheFifthElement]

Oh, yeah. I think we're all looking for it...We think we find it, only to either start questioning it or to allow others to make us start questioning it, be it The Bible or any other book. I think, Fifth, the fault lies not in the Book but in ourselves that we cannot stop questioning... ;) God Bless

Strange, but I was thinking something very similar on the way home. We present beliefs as facts as though that makes them mean more, but in the end we are all just searching and no one has the answers, and no one is right or wrong. I think you are right Pen, even if we found the book we wouldn't believe it, it is our nature, the endless quest for 'Truth'.

Won't stop me reading though ;)

[AuntShecky]

I appreciated this piece. Once in a while we can find elegance in the most "simple" of statements, especially if one takes the meaning of "simplicity" in its Franciscan/Thoreauvian connotation. Ya get me, Pen?

[Pendragon]

I appreciated this piece. Once in a while we can find elegance in the most "simple" of statements, especially if one takes the meaning of "simplicity" in its Franciscan/Thoreauvian connotation. Ya get me, Pen?Gotcha, Auntie! ;)

[Pendragon]

I admire all the questions and the seeking tone - but think they are undercut somewhat by the faux-folksiness of the dropped "g"s.Ah, my friend, you can educate a man, but you really never get the mountain backwoods out of the man. Like Popeye, "I yam what I yam!"

[Countess]

Contemplation #2

Tryin’ to help someone else with their burdens—
When my own get in the way.



I'm there; I'm feeling it. Thank-you, Pen.