(Taken with MOLOME on my Nokia 5800)
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On shoes (a conversation from Dragon Age: Origins)
Leliana: The shoes made in Orlais were exquisite. Not at all like these clunky fur-lined leather boots you have in Ferelden. Ugh... just look at them.
Warden (me): I know, right? So ugly and shapeless.
midday
midday, drowning in the whir
of power generators,
a collective of clockwork cicadas
drunk on fossil fuels,
a mechanical tinnitus,
the throbbing of lives inexorable
amidst a persistent season.
the resolve reflected from faces
whose contours are traced
in sweat.
And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river’s edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it.
“
| — | Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna |
