...well, yes, I agree the 'Comment' box is for comments - but hold on - <br />I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry... <br />yes, growing up in the Bible Belt <br />must be purgatory with only heaven and hell <br />I mean who reads Dante? <br />just don't unload it all on me, OK? <br /> <br />I guess I should try to explain myself <br />(this could be a long one, <br />like the others I pass over on this site, <br />who's got time for Byron or Browning or Milton?) : <br /> <br />Trying to make sense of this world <br />in the allotted time, ho ho, <br />I've found it helpful in the mind <br />- though I'm not 'religious', <br />but not aggressively irreligious I hope; <br />but still rather pressingly interested <br />in life and death, that sort of thing - <br />the concept of some possible unity <br />through love, Providence, order, law <br />(the Sun doesn't take a day off) <br />call it what you will <br />(or not - the Indians have spent <br />thousands of years on this sort of language) <br />and the possibility of finding <br />things related in some way through <br />something more than Chaos Theory <br />(as in a teenager's room) <br />or Evolution from two atoms <br />(by Whose law, huh?) - <br /> <br />(are you still with me?) <br /> <br />so that as in the most beautiful <br />metaphors and analogies <br />that poets delight in, <br />you and I and butterflies <br />and blue jays <br />and the smell of Spring <br />and yes, love - <br />are in some way related... <br /> <br />I think I'll stop there.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-reply-to-your-irate-comment/
