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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Beguilement

Between my body’s great desire to live
and my soul’s implacable will to be free,
I am caught, like a moth enthralled by the flame,
circles it in hypnotised flight.

Weighed down by the world and its ways,
my soul ever ready to take flight, waits.
While remembered glimpses of freedom
beguile, tantalise, but out of reach…

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:29 pm

    The saga of Life, glorious!!

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  2. So true. And you say it so well.

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