Friday, March 12, 2010

louder...lips speak louder...

so i've been renewing my book of rilke poems over and over at the library, i keep reading books 4 and 5 at a time, it's taking me a long time to get through all of them, especially his lines.

"Aren't lovers always arriving at each other's boundaries? Although they promised vastness, hunting, home."

so i'm listening to new order and dan's out of town recording, i have to go to work early in the morning and i'm all alone. i just wanted to write about that line.

we promise vastness, hunting, home. those three things don't seem linked, but they are. in being comfortable enough to be with someone for "THE REST OF YOUR LIFE" you enter into the unspoken agreement that you will continue to be new to them. we all do it. it's on the cover of magazines, how to spice up your rotten, deteriorating love life, how to bring the spark back. it's sickening. but it's how we live. we promise hunting, but we promise home. how can those be related? how can i enter the woods to hunt something i desire so much, and return home to live with the same beast i yearned for.

i learned in one of the best classes i took that to love is to destroy. is it?