Around him, the lament for the dead arose;
for she alone, in that sad place, is at home who,
having given birth to beauty,
has watched that beauty die.-Gilgamesh
“That’s the definition of Hell.It was written almost 5,000 years ago. On a clay tablet. With a freaking stick.
“Who,” the ancient, toga-wearing, sandal-sporting writer wonders, “Who could possibly feel at home in Hell? Oh, I know. Somebody who feels like they’re living in it every day. Someone who has lost a child.”
“She alone, in that sad place, is at home.”
From bythebrooke.blogspot.com, 8/24/11
Mother of All Things 