Immortality

A poem written and performed by TheRavenOfPoe
on the 3rd May 2009.

Would you still love a rose
If it lived forever?
Or do you suppose
That if it never, ever
Faded into fallen petals
And crumpled stem
Of limp and lifeless brown -
Lying on that earthen ground;
You would regard this
Poor, immortal flower
With that solemn, still power
Of a stone that sits alone
Long unchanging and unmoving
Casting shadow long and short
As the earth's bright pendulum
Tracks and swings across the sky
Unaware of the world it warms
Far far far away.

I think it is the briefness
Of the beauty of a rose
That renders it so fair
And by example I'm aware
That the beauty of humanity
Is like that of the rose.
It is by our wilting,
Our growing and our changing
That we are made more fair.
So it is that the point of life
Is given, paradoxically,
By that thing of dread:
Our mortal doom,
That thing, that looming
...Death.

Royalty-free music: "Soporific" by Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com)

Copyright © TheRavenOfPoe 2009

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[chrisnatti]

Beautiful. I want to watch this over again now. Just faved this.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@chrisnatti thank you! :)

[DramaDon83]

Oh how nice is the drama of your mind..and I am so happy it is yours that I find..

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@DramaDon83 Thank you :)

[horizon3600]

Thine utterance is comparable to a harmonious melody sung by the wisest of all feathered winged creatures gliding upon a starlighted heaven. Rare, beautiful and breathtaking. Welldone!

[TheRavenOfPoe]

Thank you for so beautiful a comment! :)

[Lost0Poet]

Please tell me you will NEVER stop sharing this wonderful poetic journey your on with us who can only attempt to mimic the faint shadows cast by your depth and endless perception of life as we know it, and your ability to form it into such elequent words. in summary, you ROCK! ;)

[SynxVII]

Beautiful

[NovaSpace888]

You have a beautiful mind. Such winsome poetry. I would love to hear some more of your original poems Jennifer. : )

[TheRavenOfPoe]

It takes great strength of character to see the value of our mortality when you have so recently lost someone dear to you. I know I will think of your strength and this poem when I am next tested by the turns of life. Thank you :)

[sleedolfine15]

Beautiful poem,a beauty born of contrast. Beauty,like life is given it's greatest value by its vulnerability which is its brevity. We value it because ironically the very thing which destroys is what makes it valuable. I lost a loved one recently and amid all of the sadness is the odd reality that it is the lost itself which reveals the beauty of what is now gone. Thankyou for the sentiment. It helps to deal with a painful time.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

A wonderful compliment, thank you! :)