Soulmate

The one connection
that opens my soul.
Pries open the door to my heart
shut so tight
to let some air in
so I can finally breathe
and exhale out my fears.

So alone in a room
full of people.
That one voice that knows me
that one familar face
that shoulder to cry on
and some wisdom to drown out
my occasional insanity.

That one friend
that one friend!
The other half of me
yang to my ying
who fills up my incompleteness
oh, that one being
who hears my silent tears.

Apacalypto- sneak peek into a sneaky movie!

Mel Gibson can't stay away from controversy it seems. The quote at the beginning of the movie about the "real reason" behind downfall of great civilizations should have put one on alert right away, but, Gibson actually manages to lull the viewer for a little while into believeing the film is no more than a brilliantly costumed and photographed jungle chase thriller. Once you get past the testicle-eating, organ ripping, dirty tribal joke grossness, the central plot of the movie actually is pretty decent and well-executed.
However, the great Mayan Civilization (as Mel would have us believe) consisted of mostly devilish blood-thirsty savages led by corrupt demagogues, whose highest point of existence seems to be in rejoicing in the mass human sacrifices of their neigboring forest natives. The potrayal of the Mayan city is so out there, and one-dimensional that one wonders whether Mel used Spanish conquistador accounts of "savage heathens" as reference for the depiction. The not-so-subtle mesage in the background of Gibson's adventure epic is that the Mayans were such a morally depraved civilization by the time the European colonialists got there, that the elimination of its culture and forceful conversion to christanity was the better way to go! Staunchly catholic Gibson manages to slip in a sneaky defense of the "white man's burden" rationale of the colonial empires!