Hecate waits. Between winter and spring,
Timing, when to push, is crucial.
Life’s moods will change;
It will burst, rock and consume,
Enchant and disappoint.
Life hides in dark shadows;
It dreams among the creepy things of our fears:
The blind grub, the dung beetles,
Rotting flesh and decayed greens.
It hangs on in the mazes
Of dried up roots and sharp flint,
In the stench of our waste,
The rage of our despair,
The rheumy eyes of a pup,
The wrinkles of our skin
And the dullness of our hearts.
Life has no choice.
It moans and pushes… it feeds death.
unbuttoned or undone 
Dear Emmy,
Beautifully written and much to think about.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you Rochelle. I am awed by the resilience of the life force in nature, the seemingly dead soil or impossibly rocky spots where nothing should grow…and yet!! Life is resilient and fearless in nature. Humans not so much, more fragile, less adaptable and resistant to change, more afraid than fearless…. well, you know.;-)
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I know. 😉
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Hecate? Are you penning these gems from Greece at the moment?
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Please forgive me for being so late to answer. No, I am not in Greece, but I am deep into the archetypal mythology…. Interesting waters of the psyche to be sure…or should I say swamp? Thank you John.
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Oh, don’t worry Em’s. The good thing about friends, conversations pickup where they left off regardless of time or distance 🙂
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Hecate Strait runs between the mainland and Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands.) Sometimes I used to wonder what the foreign vessels’ crews thought entering it. The local mariners told me it was prone to sudden huge waves. You could go from fine weather to danger of being swamped in next to no time. The two faces of Hecate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haida_Gwaii
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Yes, the two faces of Life at the mercy of random events, but always pushing to completion and renewal
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Well, Em, your usual amazing imagery somewhat dulled by the bleakness of the message.
But superb nonetheless.
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Thank you. I really wanted to bring out that behind all the bleakness there was life waiting.
Point not made. I’ll try again in a different way.
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What the “Hecate” Emm ! This is down right depressing. .., but written well. 😉
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I didn’t mean to be depressing:-(.
Thanks for finding some positive in there Paul.
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