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Gale
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since 2013-06-10
Posts 578
Russia

0 posted 2013-11-28 07:51 PM


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You buried me a year ago
Before my time
Before my death
You called me done
You wrote me off
Committed to the earth

I heard you nailing up the lid
I heard you singing “rest in peace”
And swearing to remember me
Over my grave
In tears

I cried for help
I called your name
I struck against the walls around
I tried to breathe with nitrogen
Reproached underground

How wearing black before the pit
Lost in your grief you could forget:
No speaking ill about the dead
Beneath your very feet

And now it’s you
Who’s dying there
In spite of freedom
Time and space
The blue sky and the open air
Regardless of the light

I see you losing all you’ve spared
And trying hard to save your face
I’m scared
I beg you
Do not dare
Because I’m still alive!

If - God forbid! - you leave the world
I’ll spend my years in the cold
Confined to the darksome vault
Forgotten in despair

My prayers fade away unheard
The sky is far
I wake in dread
Eternity awaits ahead
Impossible to bear

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November 2013

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2islander2
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since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825
by the sea
1 posted 2013-11-30 08:46 AM


I dont how to say in English, the poem is "saisissant" and fill of emotions,

thanks


yann


jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
2 posted 2013-11-30 11:19 AM


"heart-rendering", maybe?  

I looked up "saisissant" in the Babylon French-English Dictionary and with reading what you wrote, thought, with my first impressions, maybe that would fit...even thought not one of the words used in the definition.

Very  good write, my friend . . . very much enjoyed reading.  Will think on it some more.

j.

Michael
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since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
3 posted 2013-11-30 05:00 PM


Deep cutting words again, Galina...  "Impossible to bear," and yet we bear it, for we must.  I have felt the death you describe here so poignantly.  I have shared the witnessing of others passing as we lie helplessly beyond reach.  It's a cold place to be.  ((Hugs)) to you.  


Michael


Gale
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since 2013-06-10
Posts 578
Russia
4 posted 2013-11-30 05:45 PM


Yann,
Jwesley,
Michael,
thank you very much for reading and commenting!

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