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Monster
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We fear what we do not understand.

 Monster

 
Fear hides from our view,
a monster undiscovered.
 
What man is not dumbfounded by its darkness, rather than to be   enlightened from its brightness?
 
A river approached the edge of the waterfall.  Its silent eddies and currents willingly submit to their destiny, as they plummet onto the boulders and basin below. 
 
And the plunge renders a beautiful hovering mist, pierced by the majestic bending of a rainbow. 
 
If the river feared what was in its path, would it then have become a desert to escape the unknown?
 
And when man faces dying, the angel of death gracefully opens her beckoning wings.  Be it that he would then quiver, as would a sprig enduring a storm?

Rather then but to break his mortal symmetry onto the stars and galaxies, rendering a misty cloud, impaled by the colorful array of his nova?

Like the irony of a great story,  where upon a woman consumed a goblet of poison, thinking her lover was dead,  only but to be mistaken.

Then so is the man whose devastating fear feeds his ignorance to death, mistakingly unknowing of the monster's eternal truth.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Monster"
Reviewed by Diana Wiles
Reviewed on April 30, 2012
Acceptance and trust is the key...a blending of 'wherever life may take us... and..Wherever we wish life to take us...
Diana...

Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)
Reviewed on April 22, 2012
Dan, I like the excerpt to your Eternal Law book; it seems to reflect in this piece as well. Marvelous clause "...fear feeds his ignorance to death" . . such a powerfully-worded concept. Your writing here presents the question to me "How did we ever begin to become the most frightened species on earth, allowing us to carry the ball and chain of your "fear feeds his ignorance to death" clause? Leads to rumination. ~~ Diana

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 22, 2012
Our lives, impelled with constant movement like the stream, are forever moving. It is unlikely that we will see the waterfall coming.

Ron

Reviewed on April 21, 2012
I love the imagery and the comparison!!


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