REMORSE I have committed the worst sin of all That a man can commit. I have not been Happy. Let the glaciers of oblivion Drag me and mercilessly let me fall. My parents bred and bore me for a higher Faith in the human game of nights and days; For earth, for air, for water, and for fire. I let them down. I wasn’t happy. My ways Have not fulfilled their youthful hope. I gave My mind to the symmetric stubbornness Of art, and all its webs of pettiness. They willed me bravery. I wasn’t brave. It never leaves my side, since I began: This shadow of having been a brooding man. - Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:07:08 +0000