the worst trauma of any journey is usually the cultural shock that awaits you at home...
What business has the fugitive at home?
He can not be accepted, no one wants him,
there is nothing for him to come home to except loneliness
and strife, his family ignoring and despizing him,
the basis of his unacceptability, the ruin he was born to,
his unfair predestination to a lifelong punishment of exile,
scarring him with unjust stamp of prejudicial doom
for no specific reason other than his personality
that somehow seems too much out of this world;
and yet, he has to eat and sleep and live and labour somewhere
somehow, and that is his only rescue: he can work;
and if that personality is such that all his work can only be creative,
all the better, then he will have some support and backbone in eternity,
and all he has to do is obstinately to work hard with his creation,
and he will be more triumphant after death than any mortal conqueror.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-09-02 at 12:11
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166. The fugitive's homecoming
What business has the fugitive at home?
He can not be accepted, no one wants him,
there is nothing for him to come home to except loneliness
and strife, his family ignoring and despizing him,
the basis of his unacceptability, the ruin he was born to,
his unfair predestination to a lifelong punishment of exile,
scarring him with unjust stamp of prejudicial doom
for no specific reason other than his personality
that somehow seems too much out of this world;
and yet, he has to eat and sleep and live and labour somewhere
somehow, and that is his only rescue: he can work;
and if that personality is such that all his work can only be creative,
all the better, then he will have some support and backbone in eternity,
and all he has to do is obstinately to work hard with his creation,
and he will be more triumphant after death than any mortal conqueror.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 895 times
Written on 2006-09-02 at 12:11
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