69. The eternal conflict
The constant conflict between reality and ideals,
the eternal opponents that never can make peace,
the dreamed of and the wished for is constantly transformed
to just the brutal unwished-for and self-deceits;
beauty never can accept debasing ugliness,
which always tries to drag down beauty to its baseness;
the soul can never become body,
since the body's course tends to corrupt the soul.
This war we just have to accept
as an eternal and interminable unendurable predicament
and fight it out intrepidly until we die,
with this sole comfort: that the essence of all beauty and our soul
in contrary to all the rest can never die.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-08-27 at 12:37
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