Brilliant+Brooke

 

Time is infinite, never stopping; you are so small compared to the rest of it all. The only way to set yourself apart from the rest, even if only by a small margin, is to be your own. Everything is always changing and the only thing that you can rely on to stay constant is yourself. People may say that you change too, but as long as you are your own person, you will stay constant. 

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Imitosis- Andrew Bird media type="file" key="02 Imitosis.wma" align="center" width="300" height="45"



Time The innumerable caravan which moves infinitely The past and present wilt, and proceed to the next fold of the future But the present was my next experiment, If only to wake my neighbors up To give them buoyancy to float on the earth But I was reminded that this on which I dwelt was but dry land Not the water, full of light and reflections. By this both place and time were changed I wished to live deliberately To send my roots abroad I found that society promotes imagination as suicide And because of this we but half express ourselves And are ashamed But to trust thyself is to truly live My life is for itself and not for a spectacle What I must do is all that concerns me Not what people think It is easy in solitude to live after your own But in solitude you lose connection to society And with this connection lost You can not appreciate independence while in the midst of the crowd But the terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency Consistency created by constant change Reform is the effort to throw off sleep To overcome drowsiness But only one in a hundred million are able to wake enough for effective intellectual exertion I have never met a man who was quite awake



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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean I am untranslatable This shade separates me from the world Yet it does not engulf me in an atmosphere of sorrow I lack words to express the full extent of my need to stay constant to myself My goal not to run from my life here I hate physical things They can be left behind I prefer the intangible Such as time For time is but the stream I go fishing in Its thin current slides away But eternity remains In eternity there is indeed something sublime It leads us to the hard bottom which we call //reality// With the ability to stop this day and night You shall possess the origin of all poems You shall no longer take things at second or third hand You shall listen to all sides and filter them for yourself If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact You will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces And feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart And so you will happily conclude you mortal career Be it life or death We crave only reality To have a point of support A place where you might find a wall That future ages might know



Lull- Andrew Bird media type="file" key="Andrew_Bird-Lull_128.mp3" align="center" width="216" height="34"

When life is over It is like a flicker of bright film An instant on the screen All of its prejudices and passions condensed Illuminated For an instant Then the screen goes dark Like hundreds of butterflies People are stuck in a car radiator Dying Only concerned with beating their blue and crimson wings Trying to break free of the cycle of life and death Beautiful and sad But we are now so far from the road to truth Overspread with melancholy today Simplify Simplify Why should we live with such hurry and waste life? What would you do if you knew that this was the last night of the world? When we live in a world that is like a great black ship Pulling away from the shore of sanity Taking everyone with it Whether they want to go or not To fall over the edge What would you do to save yourself?

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