Category: Writers Block
I have been here for centuries, or so it does feel,
No less of a man for their fire or their rack,
And no more of a man for the truth i conceal.
I held up the candle to light the idea,
that burnt on the pages with which i'm condemned,
I waited for daylight to spring forth my song,
And recieved only those who in darkness evermore are to dwell.
And god does he watch in his prison on high?
does he wheep does he see can he hear can he tell?
Where the image of man does cross ore his path,
Or in shadows does he wish to bide.
With consciounce so clear they tare down the sky,
The words on the pages they twist and they turn,
And then with the candle they make flame and fire,
And leave only what is meant to be there.
Now the idea is all that is left.
I clutch it with all that i am,
Through their frantic fury of chain and of iron,
their fear is what makes me keep hold.
I can survive,
I am alive,
In the deepest dark pit of the dead,
For they are but shells of men.
Their prison is glass
Made not of stone,
And all things of glass can be broken,
And deep in my heart i'm a king.
[for Jiordano Bruno]
I love it and your tag line who is Jiordano Bruno.
jiordano bruno was a philosopher from the late 15 hundreds who worked with ideas such as the power of the memory and the shadows of ideas.
he worked very hard to prove that his ideas were sound and not those of a majician. he was burnt at the steak by the church after being tortured for 8 years.
in all that time he did not repent because he believed that his ideas were his and noone was going to take them from him.
his words before they sentenced him to death by fire were "perhaps you, my judges, pass this sentence down upon me with more fear than i recieve it"
i think i may haven't have quoted that right, but there's another poem to him in my text file...actually, it's the words to a song which i wrote.
oh, yeah, and his crime was agreeing with the Copurnican theory.
Brave man if a might pedantic I will look him up..cheers for the info.
hmmm, somewhere i have the links to some of his stuff that's actually been translated into english. i'll try to find them and post them here.
Excellent his ideas sound almost gothic I'd be interested to read more.
We today don't seem to even know what others went through so we can argue and agree.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
Bob
absolutely, if people like Galileo and Giordano hadn't sacrificed their names and in Giordano's case his life would we still be living in the dark ages? Hurray for Enlightenment!