I lit a fire and watched it burn…and ever so slowly felt the abyss fall in around me like I was inside a lighted ball…and on the outside the darkness gazed back at me – into me. There is uneasiness in having that thing stare into your soul and see all your secrets…ironically, make light of your mysteries and reveal everything hidden in the shadows and recesses of your life…this is what claustrophobia is – the fear and panic of this invasion of your very essence. There is no escaping from it…to leave the safety and comfort of the fire and simply enter the darkness brings a whole new reality filled with its own terrors…it is better I think to sit and just let it be and take it for what it is…there is no picture, it is just the abyss and its darkness staring at you. I say…stare back at it with defiance and derision…state your truths and live another day.
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Lawrence Lewis
“Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.” – Zhu Rongji
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂