What is Man the Better? Ecc VI: 11

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What is Man the Better? Ecc VI: 11

(A comprehensive portable library of new writings by the author, to include the novelette
and romance: “A Leaf and a Rose”)


By Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D. (Vol: III)
Andean Scholar, and Three Times Poet Laureate



An Old Photo
(For Shawn, Cody and Zaneta)

I was looking at an old photo today, one of all my three children mixed in with me… (at a park, in St. Paul, Minnesota, way back when, during one summer picnic event, I would guess) a voice inside my head, told me I was going to go to sleep pretty soon, for a very long time, and when I woke up, perhaps, we’d all be reunited (if at all they’d like that, and if we were in the same dimension), so it was best I write, write this, write it now, today. I was looking at this old photo you see, as I mentioned before, Cody to my right—his hand reaching up and over my shoulder, laying soft and gentle, and Shawn to my left—his hand holding onto mine, solid and firm, and Zaneta in the middle, her hands to her sides, like a little wooden soldier— myself, behind her. I thought as I looked deep into the faces of the photo: they were all mine back then—all mine for a little while, all there was of me, was in them, and then some. Yet, somehow it all faded so quickly—seemingly, faster than a clap of an eye. Shawn’s face, had a smile nearly reaching ear to ear; Cody’s grin was a happy one, hands in his pocket, trying to be cool at eleven or twelve; and Zaneta, half and half (her, I could never tell), a smile with a grin, perhaps she had swallowed a goldfish, and was laughing? And the closer I looked, and the longer I looked, the more I saw all three of them, that they had my thinking and glaring eyes—eyes that could never lie. I guess that’s something.


No: 2666 (9-13-2009) “In with vanity, and out with darkness…seeing there be many things in life that cause vanity (or pride) under the sun…what is man the better?” ((Taken out of scripture, and context, and rewritten to the author’s liking.)(Ecc))