b’’h
4/29/12
WE’D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
We’d rather turn away from fact
Than risk our sunshine so to see
That Nature plays dynamic act
Defying cold reality.
The sky is blue, the trees are green,
Without the window all is well —
Yet such not so — altho’ it seem —
Since somewhere out there life is hell.
WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
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FirestoneFeinberg
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
Thanks! --David
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
I would tend to agree. For many, life is a death sentence!
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
sad, but true in its entirety
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And so it came to pass
that everything that was
had never come to be
it's a dangerous living this... life...
Did you think that the demon would possess us?
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
I believe it was Hugh Prather who said, "The window is not the view, the window only allows the view",....This is short and simple, but very much to the point! 
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius
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FirestoneFeinberg
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
Thank you Trav for your warm and perceptive comment. You certainly understand the poem -- makes me feel like I was talking sense... Have a great day sir! --David
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
I must admit, I had to read it a couple times to understand it, but once it took to piecing itself together in my simple little mind I just say here thinking, "Wow!"
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: WE'D RATHER TURN AWAY FROM FACT
Thank you for reading this poem -- especially -- so many times. And Thank you for investing so much effort in it so as to understand it. (Yes, it isn't easy -- I forget what they mean -- often -- myself!) You are most kind! --David
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