Eternal Recurrence

Eternal Recurrence

 

Don’t be a passive trail of what you did,

Dragged along the course of tedious time.

One can undo what deserves to be undone,

Things boring, exhausting, stuck, and foul.

But there are other things hard to undo,

Like a petrified heart. If you try to undo it,

You must risk something like a death,

More deadly than a real death.

You can die this way, if you like to.

Only there is always another way, and it is

To undo the undoing and make it a redoing.

Redo it differently, with a different affect,

In a different curve, towards a different horizon.

So the matter is to go from undoing to redoing,

From dying to reliving, from (self-)hate to love.

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