Vide Cor Meum

The lyrics are from Dante's La Vita Nuova:

And thinking of her
Sweet sleep overcame me

I am your master
See your heart
And of this burning heart
Your heart
Obediently eats.
Weeping, I saw him then depart from me.

Joy is converted
To bitterest tears

I am in peace
My heart
I am in peace
See my heart

Dante to me is speaking about life, love and death. Difficult to separate them. They are interconnected. To live is to love but love in its clarity and finality is death. To love is to die and live at the same time. Dante swings and rocks the soul to sleep between the bitterness and the ecstasy of life. Sweet sleep. Death. I am in peace. Letting go. Desire is but a flame in the darkness of oblivion that will be put out. It is a resignation not to despair or to confusion but to the clarity of human fraility and the courage to rest in its inevitable fate. A passion for life must include a resolute acceptance of death. The past a dream, the future a hope, this moment is life.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

-Walt Whitman