Aaron Weiss Quotes

As the Moon rose and the hour grew late, The day help on a Coconut estate raked up the dry leaves that fell dead from the trees, Which they burned in a pile by the lake. The Beetle King summoned his men, and from the top of the Rhododendron stem: "Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again."

I wrote a little song for you With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme To repeat what you already knew; As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation, You kept a distance out of fear you'd break, But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?

You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.

Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?

The Son of the widow You raised from the dead... Where did His soul go When He died again?

You wear a thin disguise, O, Light within my Brother's eyes!

Shadow am I! Like a suspicion that's never confirmed But it's never denied! Wolf am I...

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam!

One day the water's gonna wash it away One day the water's gonna wash it away One day the water's gonna wash it away And on that day, nothing clever to say.

The sun and moon are my Father's eyes.

You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire? To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?

You've got it all turned upside-down. Does the rain that's sent each spring anew to fall on her not fall on you? You project on her your inward scenes, she's a blank, external movie screen. But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine.

If you look out and see a trace Of dark red that used to be my face, In the clarity of His grace: Remember me.

Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side, I'll spare you my goodbyes: The truth belongs to God, The mistakes were mine.

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!