PESSIMISM OR REALISM

The words that leave my lips
Shall disappear
Like breath in cold air
Going nowhere
Meaning nothing

These poems into which
We pour our hearts
Other than the smallest few
Shall be lost in endless cyber space
Like billions of trillions of others

The loves that we swear eternally
Can last no longer than lovers' lives
It shall be negated by death
Other than to an unknown
And unknowing energy

   By Phil Roberts

Reviews

[brad]

Life, within death awareness. Profound

[charlie]

Something in us either wants or knows immortality. An instinct for survival perhaps, hoping all the same ? I'm not sure there'd be any shame in that...death could be framed as a most unnatural thing, after all.

[Phil Roberts]

There is certainly no shame in it at all. I think that, more than anything, I was describing the thoughts attached to certain moods to which I am occasionally subject :)