Daimon

“To live our ordinary life artfully is … to live more intuitively and to be willing to surrender a measure of our rationality and control in return for the gifts of the soul.”

- Thomas Moore –

Care of the Soul

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Like a haunted house possessed

by unknown spirits of the long dead

or the recently departed left behind,

unwilling to leave, unprepared and afraid,

missing the ferryman’s boat, the gates

of heaven and hell locked fast against them,

we find these dreamlike specters, shadowed

wisps of our imagination peering out

or looking in through the darkened windows

we ourselves cannot throw open,

nor do we want to, fearing what we must confront

deep within the place from which our life flows out,

a shadow form waiting to be discovered

revealing to us ourselves.