The Eternity Well

What use is a life if it can end

The soul is embedded in clay

A mass that is desicated

And fades away

Our life is a spark

Embedded

Within meat

The world around us

Offers no hope

But for the mysteries

That have no answers

Our existence

In the balance

All we can do

Is live to find

The source

And to draw

From the Eternity well

Quench our thirst

For living water

For a living soul

 “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

 Edvard Munch

  “The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.”

Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

 Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet 

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“I am forever walking upon these shores,

Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my food prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam,
But the sea and the shore will remain forever.”

Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Elle est retrouvée!
Quoi? -l'Éternité.
C'est la mer allée
Avec le soleil.”

 Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes