The Razor's Edge



To wake up every morning
forced to fight the torments of your body
just to stay alive and fit for work,
the daily combat just to make life bearable
and tolerable and enjoyable at least in any way
is more than just a full time work.
It is to fight for life and for survival
balancing across a tightrope blindfolded
and without safety net, the tightrope cutting deep into your feet,
the famous razor's edge of life that Maugham described
in what is actually the introducing hippie novel
about man's desorientation in this age
in this distracted world polluted by destruction by himself,
while only sparse illuminated individuals
feel the lostness of mankind and try to search for a solution,
which they only find, as individuals, individually.
It's a predicament with no way out
which forces you to introversion
trying to find an alternative solution
by an inner road perhaps through metaphysics
for the vital rescue and redemption of mankind,
of life, of nature, of the planet and the future
to at all make any love a possibility
in desperate determination not to let it die.




Poetry by Christian Lanciai The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2006-12-02 at 11:50

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Daybreaker
Yes, this is what it is all about!

So true, with beautiful words.
2006-12-09


Zoya Zaidi
Yes, life is a struggle,
Life is a strife,
To keep afloat the essence of life,
To keep faith alive:
Faith in one self,
Faith in love,
Truth, humanity,
Faith in life...

(((Hugs dear Chritain for this thought provoking truth of life)))
Love, Zoya
2006-12-02


BlueyedSoul
I have survived a razor edge existence...where everyday was a challenge to get up and go on...to hope and believe that one day again I would see a mere slither of light, pushing through and refusing to be swallowed by an infinite darkness...13 years ago...it seems like just a day ago....you take hold of what you find along the way...you survive if you are determined. This piece, you see, described my plight. It describes my continued journey. I woke up this morning to find this...the first thing I read this morning, like dew on the morning grass, I am reminded....I am reminded. Deeply moving me to examine truths, exacting principles that were earlier carved within. Thank you Chrisitan.
~Blue
2006-12-02