rubies and the wetness of love

Pentre Ifan burial chamber, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

Now it is here, a time of balance

My life and my spirit

What I believe and what I do

How I live as a man

There is a balance now

That was missing for so long

I am warmed by the sun

And the sun is loved by me

Growing old isn’t bad at all

James Lee Jobe

You should spare the last word. 

When blinded by anger, we make choices that we regret later. 

Leave the room before the bridge is burned.

Haemin Sunim

Dreams and trees, milk and honey, the scythe slicing through silk, through wheat, and through all unreasonable expectations. Silver and gold, filtered with rubies and the wetness of love, filtered with diamonds, and with the smells and flavors of sex. Togetherness. These are the ways that the humans find themselves, the ways that they find each other, for night is here, night and silence, and now they might hold one another until day returns, if only they can find the courage.  

James Lee Jobe 

Willie Nelson - Stay All Night

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

The taste of iron and the fear of death. 

Vision of the night: toads plunge from silver waters. 

-Georg Trakl

Can you hear croaking amid the whispers of midnight?

It's the splashing against the wings of finer things,

those beings and creatures that some people deny.

This noise is axe-heavy with the taste of iron and the fear of death.

This sound haunted the puritans and the jacobites,

and felt rough against the skin but soft against the mind.

Who will now wade in the silver waters?

Who will take the plunge and croak with the toads?

You and I, that's who.

Begin slowly and then pick up the pace along the muddy riverbank.

The fear of death is nothing more than the fear of life.

The taste of iron, the croaking, the whispers,

and the touch of wings; these things await.

I'm ready when you are.

James Lee Jobe

Pico Verde Jobe

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James