Aaron Weiss Quotes

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God is Love and Love is real, yet the dead are dancing with the dead

Aaron Weiss
Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
And heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters,
I'd set my course for land, but you well understand
It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters.

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There, strapped like a watch on my wrist
That's finished with gold but can't tell time,
Was all of what little pleasure exists
Seductively sold and uselessly mine.

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And so it goes, it's the Devil I suppose
But it doesn't matter much to me.

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As the Moon rose and the hour grew late,
The day help on a Coconut estate raked up the dry leaves that fell dead from the trees,
Which they burned in a pile by the lake.
The Beetle King summoned his men, and from the top of the Rhododendron stem:
"Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again."

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You made this world to look so nice
I wonder what the next one's like?

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Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side,
I'll spare you my goodbyes:
The truth belongs to God,
The mistakes were mine.

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You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.

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Down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren't here.

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When I satisfied each need invented by my eyes,
I was a nest by a fox's hole or dirt underneath your boot soles.
Then I satisfied each need invented by my eyes,
Till it was nothing like I'd imagined.

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Lord, for sixty-so years I've surrendered my love,
to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of,
Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings,
and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught,
Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things,
and then sometimes think things are just thoughts
and the rabble rang.

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Blind as I'd become, I used to wonder where You are-
These days I can't find where You're not!

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The invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist:
Before my doubting eyes,
The infinite appears this time,
The unquestionable is questioned
But makes no reply!

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I was dead then alive,
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine;
You can pour us out, we won't mind,
As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."

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When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!

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Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?

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I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.

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I do not exist, we faithfully insist,
While watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew.
If ever You come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You.

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So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence
Because they only come out when it's quiet,
Their tails brushing over your eyelids...
Oh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!

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You wear a thin disguise,
O, Light within my Brother's eyes!

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And You dance inside my chest where no one sees You!

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But good Angel, don't I get a warning sign
Before it's my time to go?

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But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.

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The Donkey whispered in His ear:
"Child, in thirty-some-odd years,
You'll ride someone that looks like me (untriumphantly)."

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The sun and the moon,
I want to see both worlds as One!

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I threw the stones down at the reflection of my image in the water
And it altogether disappeared.
I burst as it shattered through me like a bullet through a bottle...
And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real?

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As we melt let's make no noise
Oh, the profanation of our love
To tell the world our passing joys!

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So may we old-fashionably suggest the Unmarried not undress?

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And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see,
Like a thick fog...
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.

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I often wonder if I've already died,
Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie

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