Desire, a word that is in today’s day and age, used to define the yearning for a car or a need to shed weight. Somewhere the word has lost what it perhaps really means. Desire is such mad joy, something that burns within, that possesses and yet liberates in its own longing. But why is the longing no more for love for the eternal quest of the other half of the being?
Maybe Shakespeare knew it better in his Sonnet # 129 when he wrote these lines:
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
6 comments:
Egad !
Shunning heaven that leads men to this hell - being quoted by a woman! William is laughing his ant-eaten bones out of the soil!
I doubt William knew it better. He could express it better maybe - which may well have been his salvation.
To prove it is me and not leave without a wise.... crack comment:
Desire can be everything. The Buddha said IT is at the root of all suffering - did he not? So how do you think you're immune to it?
Which God-damn Goddess do you think you are ? ;-)
(Gosh - I hope I'm not rubbing it in.)
Take care Da !
sweetie, I am here, endorsing desire. There is no Goddess known to me, bereft of desire and I in all my humility, concede to yearning in all its glory!
"
You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold
All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
"
Nothing intended.
I was just being needlessly caustic - don't take offense. Was trying to get a grip on desire.
She won't stand for endorsement. She'll just whip you up in her curls and give you the ride of your life.
"निगाहें मिलाके युँ, मेरा चैन लेना"
She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
At a travelling show
For love or money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire
Is this the time when I say I'm impressed?
Depends on what time you think it is ;-)
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