“I remember when we were young”
“With rebellion, awareness is born.” – Albert Camus
When we were young They told us “Never look directly at the Sun”.
& for a while we didn’t.
Not from deference to the authority of parents, but out of reverence for the warmth:
It was the animal – the It & not the I – that compelled us to wear the warm veil of our eyelids when we dared to approach the source of all light & benevolent warmth…
…but we’re not young anymore, so we looked & what we saw changed us forever.
Now
we stand before ancient energy, a violence our gaze can never meet, as small animals lost in a fatal & final ecstasy of rebellion:
to close our eyes, stunned & waiting for the after-image to fade
Afraid of what will come after.
“But I remember when we were young”.