Back to Collages Grief Has Taught by Patricia Simko It was the poet Emerson who said this after
his son died. He was referring to his inability to make sense of his sons
death, even after grieving for a long period of time. I am using the line
differently, referring to our seeming inability, on both the personal
and societal levels, to change our eternally repetitive behaviors, recreating
through ignorance and/or passivity cycles of sorrow, remorse, and repetitive
indifference or even cruelty. It is as if, despite our best intentions
and caring words, our psychic hands are tied by our own self-referential
nature. |