A few weeks ago I received an email from wordpress telling me that it was that time of the year in which my domain has to be renewed, I didn’t really think too much about it, but a few hours later I realised I hadn’t written a single post during 2014.  So this is me breaking my horrible record with a poem I’ve found inspiring at times and which gives me the sense that it’s important to take things easy in life.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley