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Ward Kelley
Inside the Soul's Heart
What do we carry deep inside
the hearts of our souls? There
are certain messages our conscious
minds cannot bear to hear. Deep
within our hearts is the moment
and method of our deaths, and this
is a knowledge we are still forbidden.
Also there is the daimon who drives
our soul, an identity usually revealed
toward the end of our lives when we
can more clearly see the arrow of us
untangled from the bindings of all those
other lives who have woven themselves
over our own. And lastly, most importantly,
our heart carries the black box recorder,
as though our body were a cockpit, which
keeps the record of all we feel so that after
we die we can play it all back, play the whole
thing back, so they we may judge this life,
a judgment of ourselves, to see if we have
properly used ourselves this time, this time.
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