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Open Poetry #12

I Remember Hope and More

ATelamon
Member

since 2001-02-06

Posts 328
Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up

0 posted 2001-02-28 11:33 PM

I remember Hope
and more
I remember Believing

Long ago
far away
no I do not deceive you
I believed

And I am so old
so aged I should
be wise but things really
do not work that way

Road to all Demise

Really says it all

You don't grow old people
You watch your dreams Die
one by one by many

That is age
the inability to rise
once more to the stage
and simply say
I Want or I Desire

with all I am
and all I ever shall be

But head hanging
one day a thing happens

As you are forever unknown
Inspire Respire

Makes no difference you know
This The End

Is a very Quiet Thing to Hold
last of you

All the passions in furtive life
obeys your trying

And you can say merely "Fear not the Unknown"
Fear only the Death of Dreams
Your Life is Built Upon

And so
we go

"For al these things, honor, dishonor, pain... happen to all men. They are not the mark of a virtuous life... or lack thereof" Marcus Aurelius

[This message has been edited by ATelamon (edited 03-01-2001).]

Secret Whisper
Member

since 2001-01-25

Posts 298
Through the Looking Glass

1 posted 2001-03-01 12:03 PM

"And you can say merely "Fear not the Unkown"
Fear only the Death of Dreams
Your Life is Built Upon"

Beautifully put. How excellent a piece.

"Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God." --Billy Graham

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2001-03-01 12:27 PM

"Makes no difference you know
This The End

Is a very Quiet Thing to Hold
last of you"

So sad this...dreams may die, but when hope dies, what is left? This poem touches me.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2001-03-01 12:54 PM

This is a very beautiful bit of melancholy. There is more sorrow there, I think, than meets the eye. Have you read "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom? I think that is one of the most important books I've ever read. He learns so much about how to live as he learns how to die. It is a beautiful, captivating book and it is a true experience, a documentary. I really recommend it highly. After you read it, should you do so, I would so like to see a sequal to this poem side by side this one.

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