Something else I unearthed from my notes.
Long after we have gone,
When dust has sublimated
Into something finer still;
When memory has become
A mere memory of memory
You and I will continue to live.
For the same emotion
That quickens my breath
Will pant on the lips of
That unknown new.
And in that shared emotion.
We will live again.
10 comments:
*sniff*
Simply beautiful.....
Not too sure the emotion will be the same - it will have mutated into something we wouldn't recognise/understand and our thinking would be as crude and extinct as the dinosaurs.
Will it, Materialmom? I'd say human emotions tend to stay the same, or at least recognizable. Of course, no two people can feel the "same" feelings, whether they were born and die on the same day and place or half a world/age away. But I think our ability to relate to human emotion remains the same... Surely the pain we feel today at a loved one's death is very close to that felt by an ancestor 2000 years ago? Or even the pleasure of a beautiful song, whether heard live, around a fire in a gathering or blasting from the most modern of speakers... Do you think it could change enough so as to become incomprehensible?
lovely one, atomica :) Sorry, got slightly side-tracked.
Jan
Someone did get provoked :)
Some emotions have lost intensity (even grief at a death), while some others are more intense.
Man is more mechanical than before and the human emotions thus suppressed may manifest themselves in some other form.
Maybe my thoughts are coloured by Russel or Huxley
Ayjay: Thank you :)
MM: I beg to differ MM. It is not the emotion but the stimulus that mutates. Something that at one time would have caused happiness, in another would cause anger and sadness and vice versa. The confusion arises when the times clash and the response to the stimuli do not correspond. The emotions as such remain, but their reason morphs.
Jan: Glad you liked it! :D
And I see that we think on the same wavelength :D Take that, distance!
Anytime! :)
And yes, the stimuli change, causing the emotions to change. People I've known have become quite the opposite, all due to variations in stimuli.... Sad.
i actually understood this piece :)
"...an unknown new"...
There's a glimmer of hope in this post that I loved. Good one!
Anush: You are hanging out with lit grads :D
Deepti: Thank you, love :) And so glad that you dropped by :D
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