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EagleScorpion
Senior Member

since 2000-03-08

Posts 1644
Here, Now, Forever

0 posted 2008-01-01 11:42 PM

Does anyone know the time?
I’ve lost it long ago
When witches cast their secret spells
I dream alone in snow

But dreams are soon forgotten
And it’s probably for the best
None of it ever made any sense
So stupid, nonetheless

So let us all have small talk
As we slowly, surely die
Of things that do not matter
Under this cold
And lonely sky

Let us all speak lightly
Of birds and trees and whatnot
Best not to take in seriousness
The pointless misery we’ve begot

Let’s dream of things that scare us
After eating things that kill
Let’s kill the world around us
While we pop our many pills

Let’s buy expensive watches
And throw them off of cliffs
And spend the whole of our tender lives
Preparing to be stiffs

Let us rot and waste away
And dearly, dearly fade
Let us say that nothing matters
While we float through this parade

Does anyone have the time, I ask?
It’s not there on our wrists
Nor on the blood that stains the wall
It’s in our angry,
cheated fists

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2008-01-02 11:47 AM

Dear Joseph, I might say I am sorry that you write such a cynic write on the first day of the New Year, but I will say instead that you did well to write it, if you felt this way.
Time, time, time, it's ever eluding us yes! But you took the time and wrote a fine poem about your innermost worries and I take the time to reply, because I am touched. Our time met here ... and it is a time we wrapped in significance. Understanding.
We dream because we are meant to imagine incredible, impossible things to feel joy and to feel that we have a possibility of co-creating our life and the world we live in.
In dreams there might be salvation, especially when we feel we can actually realize them.
Just a thought.
Great poem really!
Happy New Year Joseph!
Love,
Margherita

Seeker72
Member

since 2007-02-24

Posts 387
Oregon USA

2 posted 2008-01-02 10:47 PM

Loved it.

"Let’s kill the world around us
While we pop our many pills"

So pure of view towards our fickle human nature.

My own watch is broken these days, but at least it tells the right time twice a day. ;-)

Treagal
Junior Member

since 2008-01-08

Posts 38

3 posted 2008-01-08 09:52 AM

"It’s in our angry,
cheated fists"

I loved this line, it made me feel like nothing we ever do will be enough to sate our never ending hunger.

Kahlil
Senior Member

since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

4 posted 2008-01-09 09:26 AM

ES: This is a very important write. It shows
that these "things" of life do matter to you, and that
you do realize the necessity of the dream;
and the power of it inside yourself.
Perhaps this is a timely write for you, also.
You may be at a crossroads for choosing which
way is right for you. (eek, I sound like a horrorscope!)
Anyway, ES, Happy New Year....every day! ~K

jossal
Junior Member

since 2007-09-15

Posts 23

5 posted 2008-01-09 03:26 PM

Amazing! I which I'd come up with this poem, as it's simply perfect! A true example of our nature, and how time can slip from our grasp!

Darkness is only the lack of light...

Twilight Warrior
Member

since 2007-02-22

Posts 106
The World That Never Was

6 posted 2008-01-09 07:29 PM

I share everyone else's sentiments. Nice write.

"One last drink and the bottle breaks, returning us to the dust from whence we came"

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