The old souls chronicles 4 : pulsing grief 29 April 2024
Tony wonders whether Aron is aware that he has now fully become a different being from the other youngsters and young adults. Aron sees in his searching eyes the unspoken interrogation.
- I always was different and even wondered if I was a freak because I had these stronger feelings that were considered as undesirable within my community.
- You are not a freak, Aron. You feel more than others although nothing as near to what we old timers felt, the feelings that all of the world had before strong negative emotions were frowned upon. We never imagined that things would go as far as to stop us even from grieving the death of our loved ones. Now we are just relegated to the role of donors of “funny feels”, “happy feels”, “quirky feels”. In brief anything that is more on the happiness scale and nothing that can touch the extreme sadness scale
- I know what you mean. I have been studying you and your wife for some time now before you went rogue and disappeared. It was a godsend when I learnt of your presence in that restaurant. What an opportunity to finally meet you and make the request for the deeper emotions.
- Why did you want to access this range of emotions?
- Ever since my wife died, I have been having this strange bubbling of emotions that felt like nothing I ever experienced before. Sometimes it’s like a rock was laid on my chest while I was sleeping. I could barely breathe and felt like a pit in my stomach but nothing near what I felt when you gave me the pulse.
- We normally don’t give that range of emotions to youngsters like you because they have a very strong effect on your psyche. With the seclusion of the deeper range of sad emotions, there aren’t many psychologists left so it is difficult to get regular appointments with one.
- I don’t need a psychologist. I can handle my emotions
- Very well. Here is the pulse tube which I have filled with the energetic imprint of the grief I pulsed through to you. Make sure nobody else puts their hands on it and call me if you are in too much pain. I will come as quickly as I can to grant you the solace.
Aron takes the tube containing the precious pulse and bids Tony farewell before leaving the library. As he is on his way back to his home, he thinks about his wife that he might see again in her preternatural form. He decides that he will let himself feel the full extent of the grief as experienced with the help of Tony. This time, he would be using the pulser and would not have Tony’s rapid intervention with soothing solace but he knows he needs to do this for his own sanity. No more half-lived emotions dragging him into a recurring downward spiral. It is now the time to experience it fully within his own house, while looking upon the ethereal form of his wife and put this behind him forever.
Pour les cœurs faire gémir sentiers vains arpentés 21 mars 2024
Je recherchais en dunes l’expression du profil de l’aimé reconnaître traits vivants aiguisés De nuit pâleur de lune croise mon battement de cil sortilège à renaître pour mes veines enlisées
De leur bouche les lacunes médisances serviles des dédits me repaître mes atours méprisés bleue sirène en lagune fus-je donc proie facile des desseins champêtres pour mes sens dégrisés
Dans les champs s’étendaient des oiseaux bleu azur de leur bec font frémir étendards argentés que les cieux abattaient sans commune mesure pour les cœurs faire gémir sentiers vains arpentés
Lecture du poème:
Brief translation into English
For hearts to groan, vain paths trodden 21 mars 2024
I was looking in the dunes for the expression of the profile of the beloved to recognize sharp living features Of night the pallor of the moon crosses my fluttering lashes spell to be reborn for my trapped veins
From their mouths the lacks servile backstabbing From denials to nourish myself my finery despised blue mermaid in the lagoon was I an easy prey of rural designs for my sobered senses
In the fields blue birds spread themselves from their beaks make shiver silvery banners that the heavens fell without common measure for hearts to groan, vain paths trodden
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