The Lord

This has always been one of my favourite pieces, it’s a eulogy but it’s just so sweet in a wrong way. I have thought a lot about this piece lately, it’s facinating in a bizarre way. Truely moving.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W. H. Auden

Welcome to my world. An eclectic mix of worldly events and Benglish. I am lazy, work hard and have invented many short cuts, probably too many, my best would be something described as Benglish. The natural language of Ben, where two words are close, sound like, look like another word and I coin a new one on between (and justify it with some random lateral story that actually *usually* makes sense in the end..). I am quite intelligant, although very old in some ways, I remain young at heart and plan to always.

A problem solver that thinks out of the box, I can sometimes be distracted by either a. too much focus, or b. not enough focus. I love learning and life is really enjoyable. I am **very* also easily distracted and like to obsess over certain things. I am also fairly mild mannered, although I am very known for expressing my opinion and being passionate about things I believe in (this sometimes leads to not-sooo mild mannered Ben, but this is life and I’m working on it with very good success).

I am a known optimist, yet paranoid **observant I prefer I approach from all angles. I am not afraid of life or death. Life is a ride, enjoy it.

This isn’t going to be a blog to share anything work, although I may make blogging part of the subject matter as it’s more social than work. So without futher adew, let’s kick off this blog with a random post and this fit’s the bill. Life is what you make of it, sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s hard.

I hope you enjoy my random thoughts, because I ensure you they will be random