12-21-2011

"Time is two days, one safe and one of peril
And our lives are two halves, one fair, one overcast
Say to those who reproach us for what Time has done:
'Does Time oppose any but great men?'
Do you don see that when the storm winds blow
It is the tall  trees that they strike?
Corpses rise to the surface of the sea,
While it is in the depths that pearls lie hid.
It may be that time mishandles us,
Subjecting us to to constant harm.
Though in the heavens thee are countless stars,
Only the sun and the moon suffer eclipse.
There are both green and dry boughs on the earth,
But we throw stones only at those with fruit.
You think well of the days when they are fire,
So do not fear the evil that fate brings."

                                   Arabian Nights