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Critical Analysis #2

Rejoining the Fold

Ignatius
Junior Member

since 2006-09-23

Posts 14
OK , USA

0 posted 2006-09-28 01:40 AM

Rejoining the Fold

Quit, surrender, and rejoin the fold,
I'll repurchase all I've cheaply sold.
This weakling cannot take the worldly cold.

I will not read, “The Flowers of Evil,”
I'll read and write old stuff that's medieval,
Leave my negativity to the devil.

Look at the poor Gaul Arthur Rimbaud,
After he spent a season down below,
He stopped writing, no more words could flow.

Let it rest, who knows what's true or untrue,
I bow down and lean up against the pew
With my hands folded and pray for what's due.

Everyday I  will attend my mass,
and pour my soul into the stained glass
and count the rosary until I pass.

In the world, fear what's behind the dying.
Pleasure is all that's really here to cling
to in this world. That's all it has to bring.

My soul asks  to rejoin the human fold,
to be a brother to others as I should,
and know that I loved as much as I could.

I f
  I
   Could
      write
         my
            own
               epitaph-

In the tomb there are no hands to hold,
no lips to press, no softness to caress,
but there's love to keep you warm from the cold.

Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

1 posted 2006-12-10 05:45 PM

Don't why this was overlooked. I enjoyed the beginning here and had hoped you were going to expand on that whole motif. Never been a big FoE fan myself -- at another site I was accused of having a too Eastern aesthetic sense.

Go figure.

I think the meditation on death at the end is distracts from the more interesting parts.

But, hey, that's just me.

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