She Says It's All Gonna End And It Might As Well Be My Fault....

Jim - I'm just finished my HW and I'm tired... but I'll just leave you with the Sestina I hard to write for lit... it was hard because of the pattern you hard follow... blah...

Looking Past The Rain

Looking out the window to the summer's rain
Look through the portal of man's heart
Peering at the secrets of nature's mark
And he reveres the part he'll only understand with time
"It's only human," says Life "to contemplate the world's wonder"
And it's only human to fear the unknown

Looking out into the unknown
Man's vision is tainted like the view through the dark rain
He can only glimpse at the secrets of wonder
He can only imagine what nature holds at heart
And every moment he looks again, he asks himself, "Will I grasp it this time?"
But time after time it's not the right mark

Man's own thinking and logic is all that he can mark
For he can't judge what he knows to be unknown
Whether man will submit to his limits of knowledge will be told only with time
Or will he continue to learn all things just as he discovered what drives the rain?
To him will nature's wisdom open its heart?
Or will she leave him breathless to wonder?

Man withdraws from the porthole in wonder
And reaches for something he has given good mark
He finds he can only truly trust what's in his heart
And can never truly rely on the unknown
Whithersoever he looks in his heart and through the pane is as rain
And he prays that the wisdom to know the difference will come with time

A new generation and a new man comes with time
A wiser man or a stronger man, you can only wonder
But this man looks beyond the rain
This man dares to truly conceive nature's mark
He discovers what his forefathers saw as unknown
But to no avail, for sees more rain past the pane and past his heart

Perhaps the wall is the heart
Perhaps after all this time
The bleak view of the unknown
The same to which we gaped in wonder
Cannot be labeled with a humanly mark
For perhaps it's the heart that truly conjures the rain

Looking into the unknown and staring in blank wonder
Maybe we shouldn't waste time finding the mark
But first clear the heart to see the indefinite world that lies past the rain

~Jim
::Daily Lyrics:: - She believes that life is made up of all that you're used to/ And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days, and days/ She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway/ But outside it's stopped raining ~ "3 AM" - Matchbox 20