The wheels have started to turn.
Or rather, the wheels have started to slow down, they’ve started to stop and the clock has started its final countdown.
Everyone can feel it, it’s in the air now.
We’ve run out of time.
We’re all getting caught up in frantic attempts to tie the ends of our own tapestries perfectly, but while doing that, we’re leaving so many other ends untied, frayed, inexplicably knotted.
And I guess that is how it will remain for the rest of forever, reminding us of our choice each morning, coming back to us with the taste of black coffee, familiar and bitter all at once, reminding us of how we chose the world over ourselves, and ourselves over the world together somehow at the same time, how we chose to be selfish.
You see, it isn’t even a choice anymore; we don’t have an option, it’s been forced down upon us by society, and to choose anything else would be nothing but pure foolery right now.
So why is it that I’d still choose this over everything else?
Image taken from here. What a great photography blog!
And I know I only post black and white images with my blog posts usually, and I’m so sorry I just think they’re really pretty.
Black and white brings out beauty in even mundane things, it’s magical.
What beautiful writing !
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Thank you so much. π
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Don’t apologize! I also love black and white photos! π
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High-five! π
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The black and white adds a certain aura to the words. It’s enchanting!
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I know right! It puts everything in a new perspective!
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I loved the poem!
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Thank you! π
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No problem!
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Black is usually associated with tragic but it’s magic and when mixed with white, it complements it so wellβ€β€
“Out of time” is innately perceptive and riveting.Keep up the great workπππ
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Its not so much tragedy to me as it is the forgotten or the ‘invisible’, the things that are always there but you never really notice them until they’re gone.
Thank you so much! π
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Yes absolutely πππI couldn’t agree more to it as we humans have the tendency to look back and pine for the bygone.We take them for granted when they actually exist in our present lives.Thank you for your beautiful insight πππ
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My pleasure. :p
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Beautiful poem !!
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Thank you! π
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Quality poetry. π
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Thank you so much. π
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A great write!
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Thank you. π
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I agree with you,the black and white is really pretty!great piece.
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Thank you so much. π
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Great image to go with the words.
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Thank you. π
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Your reference to tapestries put me to mind of a post of mine from long ago called Intricacies- https://amongotherthingsj.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/intricacies/
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I’ll check it out right away. π
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