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[solitary_summer]

Opened my book of poems by W.H.Auden today and the first thing I saw was this, which struck me as a strangely beautiful image:

Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.



[[Another random, and really rather stupid, thing, I caught George Michael's 'Amazing' video on tv today, and it's not as if the lyrics were all that special, probably nothing that hasn't been said & sung (and smirked at by me) a million times before, but still it suddenly struck me... does this kind of thing actually happen? Can love 'save you'?

*self-disgusted* Gah. I blame spring for this... sentimentality. ]]

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[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

You know (and since you already know I'm sentimental as a whole spacestation full of mush), I think it can. In a way. Save you. Love, I mean. In that, if it works the right way (though how we are supposed to know if it's doing it, well, no idea), it changes you. Makes you see things differently. Takes you from the path you were on and puts you on another. Gives you chances.

Gah. Must be spring, no doubt.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Hm, thanks. Kind of sad in the will it happen to *me* sense, but kind of comforting too, that it maybe *could* happen... that it does happen, at least to other people.

Anyway. On second thoughts, why are we apologising for being sentimental? This isn't really a bad thing, after all?! Or at least there are a lot of worse things to feel or to be...

There's entirely too much apologising going on here... ;)

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Agreed!!!

[fifthconundrum.livejournal.com]

I think if love is real, it can save/heal you. I also think there is very little real love in the world, in this day and age.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

True...

It's kind of comforting to know that maybe there is at least a chance, though I don't really have any hopes for it happening to me...

[fifthconundrum.livejournal.com]

::smiles:: I feel exactly the same way.

[watergarden.livejournal.com]

it happened to me.

love didn't save me, but it gave me the hope and courage to save myself.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

thanks... it's good to know that it does happen.