Mortal Means (Original)
If we are here so short a time,
one day we'll find our figures thin,
and of the life we gave to grind,
a decade spent and soaked in gin.
We'll recount tales of peace and war,
all our failures and our success.
And when we see the crowd get bored,
sing of love, til the band resets.
Can mortals mean so many things,
not flags, nations, ethnicities?
There's no language when we sing, the
universal conspiracy.
If we are here so long a time,
one day we'll find our figures slack,
and of the love we took in stride,
our hearts thrown back in white and black.
Ignore the now for yesterday,
for all the treasured memories.
But here and now is here to stay,
and yesterday's an elegy.
Can mortals mean so many words,
both said and unsaid, loud, burned?
I see the shepherd and the herds,
they're giving sermons each in turn.
But as for me, I walk away,
forsaking all that I have seen.
I'm still ignoble, but okay,
and maybe that's what mortal means.
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Majestic one! Thanks for sharing something this beautiful:)
Thank you for reading and for that compliment, I'm very happy it resonated with you :)
Excellent work, for a mere mortal, that is :) Loved this poem.
It loves you right back, in a mortal, ignoble sort of way ;)
I really enjoyed this poem my favorite line Can mortals mean so many things,
not flags, nations, ethnicities? Thanks for sharing upvoted.
Thank you for sharing that. I've always been the black sheep for not paying the appropriate lip service to those qualities.
An amaizng piece.
I have my 5 cents as always thouhg =)
I read it loud and i would have kept the abab rhyme everywhere. Its almsot sonnet like. But some stanzas break the rhytm when read out loud.
In any case, a great piece mate (the ending rocks btw) !
I KNEW you'd catch that hahaha. I do try my best to adhere to whatever style I'm working with, but sometimes stuff leaks out the cracks ;) Thank you for always giving such great feedback!