Change is the only thing that doesn’t change
Generations shift but the sensation survives
Lives after lives flit by through the same route
Endless loops are blindly spinning around the same affect
With every external breakthrough
The link with the internal origin breaks up
Like pedals of a white lotus
The prime bloom is its darkest doom.
Under the sun there’s no new thing, but memory roused
But memory doesn’t know itself
Until it’s stirred, lived as new
So the hoary-haired can’t but see himself in the toddler
The toddler can’t but walk in the footstep of the old
Every evolution is an insufficient satisfaction of old desire
Every desire rises from the ancient affect
The ancient affect projects into copies of lives.
Generations shift but the sensation survives
Lives after lives flit by through the same route
Endless loops are blindly spinning around the same affect
With every external breakthrough
The link with the internal origin breaks up
Like pedals of a white lotus
The prime bloom is its darkest doom.
Under the sun there’s no new thing, but memory roused
But memory doesn’t know itself
Until it’s stirred, lived as new
So the hoary-haired can’t but see himself in the toddler
The toddler can’t but walk in the footstep of the old
Every evolution is an insufficient satisfaction of old desire
Every desire rises from the ancient affect
The ancient affect projects into copies of lives.
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