5 Years on the Blog: Mysteries not ready to reveal, sympathies I’m ready to return…

My blog is 5 years old today! I am celebrating with Arthur Rimbaud because it is his birthday too today, nothing fancy, just some absinthe and poetry. Honestly, it feels as if a century has passed and not just five years. It’s funny how much can change in five years, how different everything around me is, and how it’s exactly the same in many ways. I started this blog as a place to explore topics that are dear to my heart; it started as my art journal and my best friend, and eventually led me to my real friends, and what could be better? It also led me to more art and more poetry, and it gets better and better.

Hommage a Cornell, by Colette Saint Yves, photo found here.

Today I’d like to share a song which I’ve known for quite some time and which has become especially dear to me in the last few months: Thirty-Three by Smashing Pumpkins. The music is mesmerising, gentle and melancholy, and I cannot resist listening to it over and over again. The lyrics are beautiful too, and I don’t know why, I can’t pinpoint the exact reason, but they somehow match how I feel at this point in life; Tindersticks’ song “Travelling Light” has the same effect on me. Both are wistful and remind of the passing of time. Please, read the lyrics as you would a poem and you will feel its beauty. And the video has a perfect Victorian aesthetic.

Speak to me in a language I can hearHumour me before I have to goDeep in thought I forgive everyoneAs the cluttered streets greet me once againI know I can’t be late, supper’s waiting on the tableTomorrow’s just an excuse awaySo I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my ownThe earth laughs beneath my heavy feetAt the blasphemy in my old jangly walkSteeple guide me to my heart and homeThe sun is out and up and down againI know I’ll make it, love can last foreverGraceful swans of never topple to the earthAnd you can make it last, forever youYou can make it last, forever youAnd for a moment I lose myselfWrapped up in the pleasures of the worldI’ve journeyed here and there and back againBut in the same old haunts I still find my friendsMysteries not ready to revealSympathies I’m ready to returnI’ll make the effort, love can last foreverGraceful swans of never topple to the earthTomorrow’s just an excuseAnd you can make it last, forever youYou can make it last, forever you