Hope

Hope

 

You were with me

When I lay shivering in a pool of creeping sweat

buried under thick covers in the heat of summer

looking out into the night with heart pounding dread

for that spindly black whipping tentacled horror

that might come bounding into my bed,

And it didn't come.

 

You were with me

when i lay doubled in thick molten lethargy,

a globular magma tearing into my gut,

raging deep, flushing and spewing out

the last flickering warmth of tenderness,

until only an ashen cold skeletal soul remained,

But my soul remained.

 

And you will be with me

when i lay still as the primordial promontory

and the tired carbon water based cellular form

that i called home for the better part of a century

is reunited with its rich mother earth.

When my love for the life i leave behind

and the hope for my heavenly soul is all i have

When i have you.

Reviews

[ganymeder]

I like the imagery, as I have with the other poems, but I'm not really sure what this is about.

It make me think of reincarnation, the idea that at the end of each lifetime you die again...

[Bubo]

Okay...........Yes, I see it now all apart from the first stanza that is a different vision to the last two.........
maybe I am just a thick north london gal :)

[Bubo]

I thought I had reviewed this, I know I have read it and loved it............
such darkness almost a goth sense..........I think what perplexed me was who was it that was with you,
I thought it was a person in the first stanza...........the second and third i wondered if it was God......because its enriched with a end to life.........Its very strong and fab imagary...........leaves the reader really thinking!