La Boheme

Tonight I will go to the opera-- of course she will die again-- all our beloved Mimis do-- though we wish her to live... yet, as in and out of life, death draws us back.

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Sara Kendrick

Date: 8/31/2016 12:50:00 PM

Interesting work..Sad that we seek to see death for entertainment..Thanks for dropping by..Sara

Joe Dimino
Date: 8/31/2016 1:53:00 PM

Love your comment, Sara--thank you. I don't know that we seek to see death...I think more to greater understand it. A lot being said in this write: there is tacit reference to reincarnation; the notion also that, only through death of the Lesser-ego can mankind obtain greater experience of life. Then there is the notion that, we are born with an innate drive to understand the Sin-of-death, with unconscious knowledge that, somehow this mystery brings us closer to truth--thus, back to God from whom we have strayed. One can write a volume about this subject, but I chose to put it all in a few lines, and let the reader explore for his or her own satisfactory answers.