Stuart Buck

ouroboros

by Stuart Buck

Saturday 27th June 2015 10:20 am

We are all

Just looking

For a way out

The drinkers

Poisoning themselves

Every night

The drug takers

Shooting poppy seed sublimity

The god fearers

Hoping for an exit strategy

To pull out without bloodshed

The weekend hippies

Rolling and laughing

In mud and shit and Buddha

Desperate to dilute the banality of existing

As a doctor

Lawyer

Teacher

Nine to five

Oh God

Take me away from this

Oh Allah

Take me away

Anyone

Take me away

From the realisation

That all of this

Is nothing

Take my dust

And make it breathe

Take my soul

And make it soar

In acid

We believe

In sex

We believe

In each other

We believe

In the sun

We believe

In hope

We believe

Yesterday

I believed

Today

I believe

Tomorrow

I will believe

Outside

The sun is coming up

The blossom falls

The snake eats itself

unedited rant

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burial ►

Comments

Travis Brow

Fri 3rd Jul 2015 09:57

Stu, you say 'the trick is to have nothing to escape from, a difficult thing to achieve.' I firmly agree with you and i also think it's worth the pursuit, however hard it proves. I'm on that path myself, but i frequently stray off it.

Stu Buck

Sat 27th Jun 2015 15:20

i dont know. i think everyone is looking for something different. but most people want to escape something! i remember going to a festival several years ago called buddhafield and seeing a myriad of people, all professionals, desperate to forget who they were. they were rolling around on the floor, dancing and singing. i spoke to a few of them while i was there, and they told me it was a good form of escapism. i myself have tried several forms of escapism. the trick is to have nothing to escape from, a difficult thing to achieve.

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