Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
Takotsubo (inimǎ zdrobită ).
Takotsubo ( broken heart).The Pardon of the Sinful Woman (Luke 7:36).
Oscar Wilde wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' after serving a two-year sentence in that prison. The experience of imprisonment embittered him. The despair that is felt by a man isolated from the world is reflected in the poem. The poet tells of the silent communion that he has with one of the prisoners who has been convicted of murdering the woman he loved. The man is to hang for the crime. On the morning of the execution all the prisoners await the stroke of eight, the time set for the hanging. Finally the execution takes place and "all heard the prayer the hangman's snare/ Strangled into a scream." The poet, who himself has undergone all aspects of human experience in his fall from the heights to the depths of society, feels that he has lived more than once and thus has a special understanding of the sufferings of others.
And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry,
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.And every human heart that breaks
in prison-cell or yard,
is as that broken box that gave
its treasure to the Lord,
and filled the unclean leper's house
with the scent of costliest nard.
Ah! Happy day they whose hearts can break
and peace and pardon win!
How else may man make straight his plan
and cleance his soul from Sin?
How else but through a broken heart
may Lord Christ enter in?