REQUIEM

Is life a privilege or a job

Requiem

Living,

To toil and labour,

A slave of breathing,

To cry and hide,

The way we truly feel.

 

And we walk around each day,

Work and live and play,

Wearing or faces,

Filling our places,

Such precision,

Blocking our vision,

That in truth we agonise.

 

Can you remove your face?

The raised cheeks and brows

You wear, maybe even

Padded inside, to

Soak up the tears

When life, such cruelty

Her incarnation adorned,

With the tears of the forlorn.

Like gems not precious, not rare,

But expendable for someone cries near.

 

Each of us, in the abyss

Of our soul,

Cries, “hunger!”  Wishing we were whole

In one true place

Caged within ourselves,

Even there is life’s presence,

Collecting our fears.

 

In hunger we consume.

In thirst even a mirage we seek.

But given to us are razors to eat.

Dinking pure agony

To soften the blades.

Chewing on their rust

To bleed out from the tongue.

Tasting our own blood such sweetness,

To numb the shame of our weakness.

Where the fires inside extinguish,

We cannot free ourselves.

Cannot until death,

The eternal allsleep,

Gives requiem.

 

So I say, I sing

pulchritudinis et pacis

in mortem is gratis

to give eternal rest

to our souls.

Author's Note

the Latin lines,"pulchritudinis et pacis/in mortem is gratis" mean beauty and peace/in death are free

Reviews

[kimmy]

Wow! you have made me think with this one here. I think that you are so right, I love how you got together so right and it makes you think. People in this world now days are, I don't know what to really say about them. I don't understand how someone can use others, talk about them, or hurt them.
Thank you so much for sharing this :)

[Deron Alexis]

hey you should write more poetry I think poetry from your mind would blow people away

[kimmy]

Thank you :) I don't know if I can do it..I have two things that are support to be poetry and Im not sure how they like it:)

[Hadeel ( Charming Fairy..]

OMG ! its so so amazing , well penned
its so emotional and talks about a certain point in our lives
we reach, searching for our souls..
but i am curious here , what is the thing between you and masks ??

[Deron Alexis]

I just find that that people wear these faces to fit their situation like a dress to an event that you change when you go to another type of event so that it's impossible to know what they feel and want they say they feel a certain way cause society says you should feel that way in that situation I have the dream of someone removing that mask infront of me someday and share their true intention and sentiment if you notice when someone feels more or less than society wants they're a psycho or crazy in some other form

[Hadeel ( Charming Fairy )]

yes , unfortunately a lot of people , wear masks and fake their feelings and actions , but there still a few people who aren't that way :)

[Hadeel ( Charming Fairy )]

and i wish that i could see your face too, you are mysterious :)

[Deron Alexis]

my profile shows my actual face just in negative i'll add a real one if you like :)

read moremy profile shows my actual face just in negative i'll add a real one if you like :)

[Hadeel ( Charming Fairy )]

yes sure i would love to :)

[Deron Alexis]

cool will you add one?

[Hadeel ( Charming Fairy )]

add what?

[Deron Alexis]

a photo

[Hadeel ( Charming Fairy )]

mmm a photo of me , i don't know , and beside
i asked you first :P

[Balkaran Sidhu]

nice one here

[Godkrusher]

Great write. I love the fifth stanza the most.

[Deron Alexis]

yeah most people i show it to like that one

[Damien Davison]

Just amazing, very thought provoking.
So many lines stuck out to me, here's just one...
"In hunger we consume.
In thirst even a mirage we seek.
But given to us are razors to eat."

That speaks volumes... We will need and greed, and because of this needy greed, the ones calling the shots can use the kind of "supply and demand" idea... When there is only one source of food, if all we are provided are "razors", there isn't much we can do about it. Maybe I'm thinking too much. Thanks for sharing this!

[Deron Alexis]

yeah you got it,kinda being shut down, not literally but socially people just hand you their leftovers the worst of themselves.