I met a girl today
her voice
golden
liquid
voice
limpid
open
She had the voice
of age and knowledge
she spoke with purpose
to her words
and she didn't laugh.
I found myself attracted to her.
For the first time, a voice caught my eye.
I commiserate with Odysseus.
I'll take beeswax any day.
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Some voices are beautiful indeed.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wish. Other times, I just stay quiet and listen.
Why must the narrator guard himself against beautiful voices?
The narrator will take beeswax because he'd rather not fall under a spell? Hmm. I hope that a woman who speaks with purpose and knowledge would 'catch' someone eventually;
ReplyDeleteSo, the narrator would rather be one of the sailors with beeswax in his ears than Odysseus, lashed to the mast and wanting to stop and stay with the Sirens? So, it's not better to have loved and lost than never to have loved? Hmm.
I should go to bed. It's midnight. (That's late for me.)
It's better to have had, than to have wished.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with that. But I have little experience with other-than-wishing for some things.
ReplyDeleteSome things change a person.
Was my sister's life better than mine because she actually had the things I desperately wanted? Perhaps. But I don't think so.
Then again, you seem to say that being sheltered from even wishing is best. Maybe that is true (knowledge of good and evil, and all that).
It's probably different for everyone.
ReplyDeleteThat is true. "Be careful for what you wish."
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