The Sleeper Must Awaken
(from words by Duncan Idaho and Duke Leto Atriedes)
I think, what a joy it is to be alive,
and wonder if I will ever leap inward,
to the root of this flesh,
and know myself as I truly am.
The root is there, but it is tangled in the web that is both future and past at once.
It only awaits a word to free me.
Because of this a person needs change.
Change jars something deep within us,
and allows us to grow.
Without change, something sleeps within us, and seldom awakens.
mr. was that a poem cuz if it was it was good
ReplyDeleteyes, it was, and thanks for your kind words about it. i'ts based on a character from one of my favorite novels, called Dune...
ReplyDeleteoh so you thought of it yourself??? i like writing poems too maybe ill type you one
ReplyDeletenah thats definately a direct quote from the book
ReplyDeletepretty direct, but it's actually a mix of comments made by Duke Leto to his son Paul, and then separate dialogue made much later in the storyline by the ghola Duncan Idaho. I always thought they actually fit together rather nicely...
ReplyDeletegood observation, whoever you are, "anonymous," and a Dune fan to boot!