It’s funny how some insignificant things like having your driver’s exam behind you or holding a small piece of paper in your hand can make you so calm.
being not strong enough to take a decision, you know you will later regret,
being afraid of what’s inside of you,
being afraid of keeping it there,
being afraid of letting it go.
Dare you.
Mon Dieu! quelle guerre cruelle !
ReplyDeleteJe trouve deux hommes en moi:
L'un veut que, plein d'amour pour toi,
Mon coeur te soit toujours fidèle;
L'autre, à tes volontés rebelle,
Me révolte contre ta loi.
Hélas! en guerre avec moi-même,
Où pourrai-je trouver la paix?
Je veux, et n'accomplis jamais,
Je veux, mais (ô misère extrême!)
Je ne fais pas le bien que j'aime
Et je fais le mal que je hais!
Jean Racine
TWO SOULS
ReplyDeleteI do not live: I burn. In acrimony raging
Two souls are duelling within my breast:
The soul of a devil, the sould of an angel.
Their breathing is flame and it gives me no rest.
Not one flame bursts but two – whatever I am touching,
And in each stone two heartbeats I hear clash …
Whereever I go there’s an odious doubling
Of two warring faces, which vanish in ash.
And everywhere the wind that follows me is spreading
The ashes: all my footprints are effaced.
For I am not living – I burn! – and am shedding
A trail of grey ashes across a dim waste.
Yavorov