ALTERNATIVE ENDING

All The Way

If you're going to try, go all the way. 

Otherwise, don't even start. 

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives 

and maybe even your mind. 

It could mean not eating for three or four days. 

It could mean freezing on a park bench.

 It could mean jail. 

It could mean derision. 

It could mean mockery--isolation. 

Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance,

 of how much you really want to do it. 

And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. 

And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. 

If you're going to try, go all the way. 

There is no other feeling like that. 

You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. 

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.

It's the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski

Miss you Squid

Drawing by Chiara Bautista: Facebook

The Journey

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice--

though the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

"Mend my life!"

each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do--

determined to save

the only life you could save.

 Mary Oliver