We will live forever in fragments,
misunderstood, misinterpreted like Socrates.
Who will be our Plato? Words will evolve
into new languages that speak more precisely
about the depths of the world, like whales
sounding the harbor, finding its limits, hunting
for an opening to the expanse of sea and the
warm embrace of the Gulf Stream where
childhood is an infinite dream and songs
are fragments from a deep dark past.
Sounding
16 Monday Oct 2017
Posted in poems
Poetry on the run 
“We will live forever in fragments,”
Wonderful.
I often think about what it would be like or perhaps really what it IS like to live in somebody’s deep, dark past. Just how far could our words go….
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I think, Socrates wasn’t misinterpreted but too well understood. His truth was by the mighty ones not well accepted, they did not want to admit the truth. Sigh. Same happens over and over again. One can watch it and try to tell or show. But the will for a real change can’t not (and even more: shouldn’t) be forced upon the others by us or other human beings, only by the forces of nature or universe … and, maybe, just maybe in being an example, like Socrates, he still is a light in the darkness, isn’t he … ?
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I think you are right about Socrates not being accepted. I also think that unfortunately there are too many people now who do not understand Socrates’ most important thought, “I know what I do not know” or some paraphrase like “I know that I know nothing.” Too many people reveling in ignorance. I also agree that nothing good comes from forcing people to change. As for a light in the darkness, Socrates and MLK are the brightest for me. Of course there many woman whose lights shine very bright. Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite artists and thinkers, a true genius.
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