Contrasting Clarity

Clarity

Was I thinking so loudly?

A heart absorbs the absurd

on a regular basis.

Primordial fears and poisoned

skies are

stage smoke;

but fragrant whispers from

your skin are 

open windows

on relief.

And I see,

and I laugh:

I 

know

nothing.

- Anna Piutti.

Clarity

my will or thy will

it brings me to that always

my ego or thy ego

letting go or letting be

how do I choose the wise path

this eternal conflict bates me

clarity comes like dawn

slowly it rises

above all the emotion

patience

-raskin

It comes to this. Clarity, denial and blindness come together, usual bed-fellows comfortably familiar. In the deepest shroud, there is awareness. In the lightest being there is fog. Ambition he led me, he owned me, giving me vision heated, sharp, all-consuming, i measure up measure UP; yet I knew nothing. Now I can see clearly, clearly alone, incorrigible, perhaps just on my own. 

- babble; berkeley