Memory

(EC 2/20 '11)

it is when feeling some life not my own, a view from a moment in the past and into the future, like a dream is, or a memory that brings say, with a glass of wine a fear, that is not to say -    what?  that the future is made up of past moments?  That a dream is never life because a dream is neither succeeding nor failing but simply is, a dream - thread out of what was.

And value is put on this dream.  Why?

    simply put it has no value
    but is valuable,
    just like it is to say
    when two sides to a given
    motion are unveiled,
    we sit beneath it,
    neither bowed to it
    nor standing over,
    that is the dream
    and so I think
    is dreaming.

"you need a form to dream"  - Bei Dao

hence, the necessity for poetry, music, etc.

good night. 

2/20  '11.