{"id":191,"date":"2015-11-21T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-11-22T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T18:42:13","slug":"things-that-are-undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/things-that-are-undone\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that are Undone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sculptures-lurking-in-the-shadows-2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-191];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-192 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sculptures-lurking-in-the-shadows-2-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"sculptures-lurking-in-the-shadows-2\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sculptures-lurking-in-the-shadows-2-270x300.jpg 270w, http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sculptures-lurking-in-the-shadows-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>The blank spaces, the places where there are no un-finished tasks, tokens reminding me of something left unfinished\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d these places are where things <em>are<\/em> finished. Cycles of action have gone from start to change and landed on stop, but there is no more- the deed has been done.<\/p>\n<p>This is why there are so many things in my life, so many incompletions.<\/p>\n<p>Like stars in the heavens, so many things undone, so much unburned desire- but is there still adequate interest?<\/p>\n<p>The un-built plane meant my desire for freedom. I didn&#8217;t finish it, but maybe because freedom is not an issue for me today. Let it go? Finish it? Keep the big unfinished wing around forever?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Like that. My life as a pile of un-dones.<\/p>\n<p>And then, along comes a song like this one-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E7SSC3ex-bA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Older brother, restless soul, lie down<br \/>\nLie for a while with your ear against the earth<br \/>\nAnd you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hear your sister sleep talking<br \/>\nSay, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your hair is long but not long enough to reach<br \/>\nHome to me<br \/>\nBut your beard<br \/>\nSomeday might be\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>And she woke up in a cold sweat on the floor<br \/>\nNext to a family portrait drawn when you were four<br \/>\nAnd beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more<br \/>\nShe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll lay it aside<\/p>\n<p>Older father, weary soul, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll drive<br \/>\nBack to the home you made on the mountainside<br \/>\nWith that ugly, terrible thing<br \/>\nThose papers for divorce<br \/>\nAnd a lonely ring<br \/>\nA lonely ring<br \/>\nSit on your porch<br \/>\nAnd pluck your strings<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find somebody you can blame<br \/>\nAnd you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll follow the creek that runs out into the sea<br \/>\nAnd you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find the peace of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Grandfather, weary soul, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fly<br \/>\nOver your life once more before you die<br \/>\nSince our grandma passed away<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve waited for forever and a day<br \/>\nJust to die<br \/>\nAnd someday soon<br \/>\nYou will die<\/p>\n<p>It was the only woman you ever loved<br \/>\nThat got burnt by the sun too often when she was young<br \/>\nAnd the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood<br \/>\nAnd there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing you can do about it now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blank spaces, the places where there are no un-finished tasks, tokens reminding me of something left unfinished\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d these places are where things are finished. 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