I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost." -Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Canto I.
So through the forest I stumbled, looking for something - but not finding it for the nature of its indentity was unclear to me.
I found myself at an apparent impass. A narrow path where turning around was not easy, or sensible, moving forward was arguous, to the right a wall, and to the left a cliff. How I found myself there was unimportant, but the risk associated with each decision was potentially mortal - though each risk at the hands of a different fate.
Finally as the footing began to give way, a decision was forced. Up. This time I would climb up and out of the predicament into which I had stumbled. Up and out of this dirty, cold place aside the cliff wall, where there was nothing but rodent excriment and crumbly rocks to fill my grasp.
Up on top. To feel the fresh wind. To ask for forgiveness for the actions that put me in the prior escaped situation. To feel the warm radiance of that forgiveness, and the redemption that comes with it. Up was the right way. This time, it was the right way.
7 comments:
Tell me what this post has to do with deer killin. The smellin-o-venison hippie
Uhhhh. I heard some rifle shots in the distance and a deer wailing as it coughed through its dying breaths. Does that work, you blood thirsty bambi killer?
Uhhhh. I heard some rifle shots in the distance and a deer wailing as it coughed through its dying breaths. Does that work, you blood thirsty bambi killer?
It didn't do that much for me because I missed its suffering. I tried for a skull shot...musta hit a lung instead. The deadeyedick hippie
Is anyone riding Tues afternoon?
I am going to try and make it Tues...
too funny. My wife is reading Dante's inferno now (for what reason I do not know).
The Inferno.... great book. kind of hard to follow, but very interesting. plan to read divine comedy next.
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