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Quote #1218 - #FoggyThoughts
29 Dec, 2025
Foggy Thoughts of 2025
Thousands of knife wounds
thousands of paper cuts
thousands of bodies floating, fleeing
through the surrounding moats and oceans.
Thousands of lilies, chrysanthemums
blooming in the valleys, on the hillsides, through
the pavement cracks.
The sounds of oboes and cellos in the air.
Screams, too, and prayers--
cacaphonous, harmonious, meditative--
from the cities, the prisons, the fields
of fruit and flowers.
Thousands of tricks played on friends, foes, and family.
Thousands of nasty trolling comments.
Thousands of kittens dancing.
These beauties
these horrors
co-existed for thousands of years
yet now always within our reach
in our grasp
in tiny computers we clutch,
in our heads--imbedded,
embossed, ingrained--
until they feel so much more real, ever-present
inescapable
unavoidable.
Awareness is essential but
can be
brutal as well.
How do you hear the music through the desperate voices?
How do you immerse yourself in beauty
always knowing the knives are out?
How?
How?
Greater awareness.
Greater still.
Awareness of the choice.
Of course, it's always been a choice--
every weapon a tool,
every tool a weapon,
every banana slip a joke,
every song a scream
of fear, pain, or pleasure,
every flower a perfume, a ballet,
a color splash
grown from the soil of both
harvest and destruction.
It's always been a choice.
Whether the direction you choose is foggy
or clear.
Where do you look? What
do you look at? What
do you hear?
Shellen Lubin
December 29, 2025
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