memento-mori

Flashing images at the end of time...

Smoke

Ash of memories

Miasma of emotions

Fractured snapping reminiscences

Shape-shifting history

Smoke

Facts transmogrified mirages

Time muddled brain

Shifting dreamy hallucinations

Smog blackened faces

Smoke

Blinding leathery ether

Wispy fleeting voids

Nebulous shifty truths

Guilt induced torpor

Smoke

Raspy coughing voices

Frosted window glasses

Kohl rimmed tears

Shaken arduous breaths

Smoke

Alcohol induced stupor

Crisscrossing confusing detours

Slowly unravelling past

Hurt heart's ardor

Author's Note

me·men·to mo·ri   [muh-men-toh mawr-ahy, mohr-ahy, mawr-ee, mohr-ee; for 1 also Lat. me-men-toh moh-ree]
–noun, plural memento mori for 2.
1.
(italics) Latin. remember that you must die.
2.
an object, as a skull, serving as a reminder of death or mortality.

Reviews

[Joiedevivre]

The end of time for one or all, catastrophe or not, wonderfully conveyed. Brilliant and evocative use of the word smoke reminds me of my travels in Nepal and India where I saw bodies cremated along the Ganges river. All in all, this is superbly atmospheric.

[DiMar4u]

intense. thanks for sharing.

[Jasmine]

you have an excellent way with despcription, I am finding. another imaginative poem.

[Nothing Personal]

A fascinating theme to start off, difficult, intriguing, provoking enough thought what it could be..end of time, a concept as alluring and bewildering as it gets..
The first two stanzas focus a lot on the physical consequence as and near death, the later ones more on the other side, for me..The title is great, you've picked quite a title. haven't you?

[piggy]

i think i just read a dictionary.

cool

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Well done! A tragic tale but moving nonetheless. Thanks.
Light,
Siddartha

[abhas]

oh... this is something... ! you have to feel this one... hard to explain.. with so much smoke around... somewhere something just creeps up here and there... or may be everywhere... and this write.. leaps across boundaries... comparisons and metaphors.. transcend this to another level.. great write...

[Ashesh]

awesome! loved how you symbolized smoke as a reminder to mortality. more so in Hinduism. good read. thanks for sharing.

[Reena]

Superb use of the smoke screen Sid and wisdom far beyond your years.I sense a great poet throbbing at the threshhold of the literary world , aiming to cause a sensational breakthrough! Five distinctly different viewpoints converging in a prism of smoke and emerging out as crystal clear voice at Life's end point. Masterful language and you have surely enhanced my meagre vocab. Thanks for sharing.

[Art]

interestingly wtitten piece, we all see or reflect upon memories and it is at the end when all is but a whisper within the wind that we sense the very emotions of life...for all is but a simplistic moment of time...