Archive for December, 2010

Daedalus is Myth

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

There is no reason to forget
Who we are,
From where we come

Save for the labyrinth
Where we find ourselves,
So cunningly made.

When we strive to break free
We are turned back to the same spot,
Only a different scenery.

We ask for help,
But what use are directions
In this place?

We walk a path, turn a corner,
And wonder:
Will this be the one?

Yet how many turns have we made
Alone, or with another
Only to be disillusioned

And left puzzling:
Have we moved closer
Or farther away?

Let us stop
And be still,
And be still.

Have we become too accustomed
To running along boundaries
Of the mind?

Are we too eager
To follow the thread
Of the day?

Daedalus is myth
And so is our labyrinth.

© 2009 Ron Herman

To Remember

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

Was it only a dream
That we should be?

In sorrow we forget;
In joy we remember

That indeed it is a dream.

But not merely,
Not of slumber.

A ballad sung
Here among the snowy pines
On the lap of a mountain

It echoes clumsily
Among the valley folk
Of the struggle
To turn an unconscious dream
Into a conscious dream.

Dusk approaches,
And I go to my cell
To sit very still
And remember!

© 2009 Ron Herman