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Topic: The Grey Man
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Ayelet
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posted August 09, 2015 07:25 PM
  
The Grey ManThe grey man came to me
offered me the world
I just wanted to see
a glimpse of morning
then take it all day with me. The grey man has insisted
and pulled out a pack of cash
"Take it, you fool, or I'll take you
where the sun never rises." I didn't know the grey man
could be that violent
Fearfully I took the money
without bidding him farewell Well, his hat was early morning
but beneath it all chances were lost
and I can't afford to buy a possibility
with all the money lying here in this world. IP: Logged |
thequeen
Knowflake Posts: 1352
From: Al Da Beatz
Registered: Sep 2014
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posted August 10, 2015 04:08 AM
Very Very Very Deep meaning. Short with concise meaning.IP: Logged |
Pearlty
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Registered: Jan 2012
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posted August 10, 2015 01:29 PM
lots of depth and layers of meaning.IP: Logged |
Ayelet
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posted August 13, 2015 08:37 AM
Thanks thequeen and Pearlty, for reading and commenting  IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted August 14, 2015 08:18 PM
Truly... there was no real offer made at all. You had no control, even though it falsely appeared as though you had.  There's another way of reading this, where I see The Grey Man as life. You are given life, with a certain amount of expendable resources. Life is rough, and there's the rest of it to live-out. When I first read your poem, Ayelet, I had an image of Leonard Cohen... There is a crack, a crack in everything... That's how the light gets in. (music) Anthem (Leonard Cohen) [9:32] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e39UmEnqY8 IP: Logged |
Ayelet
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posted August 14, 2015 11:23 PM
But the offer I wrote about was not the offer you thought it was. It was actually the negation of that offer. The man I met was not "the grey man". And the mistake may not exactly be what you think it was. And I am not automatic. I have, and had, free will. So be it. There are pisces of the puzzle missing. Some may be discussed elsewhere. Some not. I don't see the grey man as life but as the grey man, whose acceptance of "help" makes loss possible. Grey is not a welcome colour in my lexicon, though greyish silvery hue can be extraordinary, especially of the sea at dawn. The grey man is life being robbed. Loved the song. What a beautiful idea. IP: Logged |
Randall
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From: Saturn next to Charmaine
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 15, 2015 03:35 AM
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LF DX
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From: Paraguay
Registered: Sep 2014
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posted August 17, 2015 04:40 PM
Amazing, quite deep indeed.IP: Logged |
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