Eric Gamalinda - The Opposite of Nostalgia You are running away from everyonewho loves you,from your
Eric Gamalinda - The Opposite of Nostalgia You are running away from everyonewho loves you,from your family,from old lovers, from friends.They run after you with accumulationsof a former life, copper earrings,plates of noodles, bannersof many lost revolutions.You love to say the trees are naked nowbecause it never happensin your country. This is a mysteryfrom which you will neverrecover. And yes, the trees are naked now,everything that still breathes in themlies silent and starkand waiting. You love October mostof all, how there is no wordfor so much splendor.This, too, is a sourceof consolation. Between you and memoryeverything is water. Names of the dead,or saints, or history.There is a realm in which—no, forget, it,it’s still too early to make anyone understand.A man drives a stakethrough his own heartand afterwards the opposite of nostalgiabegins to make sense: he stops raking the leavesand the leaves take overand again he has learnedto let go. -- source link
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