Charles

“Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town"

I seem to recognize your face
Haunting familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place
I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

I swear I recognize your breath
Memories, like fingerprints, are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all
Small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see

I just want to scream, "Hello
My god, its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are and here I am"
Hearts and thoughts they fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade

Pearl Jam, Vs<.i> (1993)”
― Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty

“I know the power of words / seeming trifles that fall / like petals beneath the heel-taps of dance. / But man with his soul, his lips, his bones. — Vladimir Mayakovsky, These haunting lines are from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s final, unfinished poem, "Past One O'Clock" (often translated as "The Incident is Closed"), drafted just before his suicide on April 14, 1930.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“And it’s always the lilac garden on the other side of the river. If the soul should ask you if that is far from here, you should say, On the other side of the river, not this one, but the one over there. — Alejandra Pizarnik, “Rescue,” Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems (New Directions May 17, 2016) First published January 1, 1968.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

“To take a step into the future we need to shift our weight to the opposite foot”
― William Irwin Thompson, Darkness and scattered light: Four talks on the future