‘For all of you Breaking Bad aficionados out there, this video of Bryan Cranston reading Percy Shelly’s poem Ozymandias may resonate with you:
The poem tells us of a timeline to devastation. A spiritual life does not reside in time. It resides in a place of no time. No past. No future. I heard that Shelly was an ardent Atheist, expelled from University due to writing against the existence of a God. He also drowned at 29. Interestingly, his first wife committed suicide. Paradoxically, this angry and aggressive poem was written in the form of a Sonnet, which is usually associated with love. So, could death, devastation and maybe even Suicide, possibly be an end to a means? An initial belief system that has gone terribly wrong that just needs a new one to take its place? Maybe we need to write a new scroll, a new story of each of our own lives to really live them well. Sometimes I say, look at the poem and you’ll know the poet. But then again, sometimes I say look at the poem and then begin to look at yourself.’
