Wanted
February 8, 2009
I wanted to say but I couldn’t,
I wanted to go but was too late,
I wanted to stay but had to leave,
I wanted to see but I blinked.
You wanted to listen but didn’t,
You wanted to be found but you hid,
You wanted to be caught but you ran away,
You wanted to reach out but stopped short.
What we have wanted, and only wanted,
We seem to have missed.
~wbv
Indifference
December 2, 2008
A complete lack of caring
Totally devoid of…
Wanting to know
Wanting to believe
Wanting to care
Wanting to see
Wanting to live
Wanting to die
Wanting to smile
Wanting to cry
Wanting to hold
Or just let go
Wanting to hide
Or wanting to show
Wanting to speak
Wanting to breathe
Wanting to give
Or a chance to receive
Wanting to touch
Wanting to hold
Wanting warmth
Or to stand in the cold
Wanting to love
Wanting to ha…
Never mind.
~wbv
The Image And The Empire
June 28, 2008
The most difficult task seems to be to find that single focus under which all other tasks hide. That one idea, goal, “vision”, “image”, or “thing” that drives all else for the best possible result is both all-important and all-elusive.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
The end for which we hold vision is much bigger than the act of holding it. Some people, it seems, tend to confuse the two.
The purpose of the goal is not to keep going. On the contrary, the purpose of “keeping going” is to reach the goal.
The goal has become a motivational tool (a means to an end) rather than the end itself. Like a carrot dangling in front of us by a string, it serves to motivate us to finally do what we should have been doing all along.
At some point we stopped holding onto the image for the sake of the empire, and started daydreaming about the empire for the sake of keeping the image instead.
