Live in Death (a poem)

Music: http://ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/22769
Photos from sxc.hu and "Home" free-use movie
Let's burn away the night
the mourning
and the flight
for better days
I ask you, stay
The last breath tastes so fresh
just like the first
Death, it means a time to return
rebirth
A call for things remembered
things rendered
some forgotten
don't fear the rotten
we are here
it's time to come home now, dear
that much
is clear
Another journey
of love
Another mission
my dove
I don't want to leave
or be bereaved
either
but
Our time is short
we burn with fever
To live fully in death
and breathe the ether
and feel the warm sun,
live 'til nothing's left
That's what it means
to truly live in death
is to be fully alive
and never regret

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[HaleyMary]

Excellent poem! Our physical forms die, but the energy goes on. in a sense, everything dies every seven years, as the atoms in the bodies are always changing. it's like there is a cellular reincarnation as well as an atomic reincarnation of energy passing from one form to another. That's what this poem reminded me of anyway.

[ozjthomas]

@HaleyMary ty =)

[sweetelesue]

For me, the trouble is I die, but I can't manage to stay dead. Any pointers?

[ozjthomas]

Death is a point of view. We lost one form and gain another. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, just changed to another form.

[ItsFilthy]

so good Oz...I love this

we have a very sad and warped view of death...and that contributes, and could be argued, is the cause of our sad and warped view of life.

[ozjthomas]

yes. in order to truly live you have to accept everything.

[tinySpectacle]

Really great poem: glad to have met you too. New sub.

[MammaNole]

@ozjthomas OMG, absolutely... perfect wording man, i love love love this poem

[andrewnorris1]

Great words and stunning images. I enjoyed your reading. 5*

[1moreslave]

yes, by accepting death as something inevitable we come to apreciate life more.

very nice poem, by the way..

[ItsFilthy]

exactly...nicely put