This poem should be read in the context of Snape's character in general, but also specifically in the context of HBP (by JK Rowling), when Snape has to kill Dumbledore.
Are you alive?
It's all I have -
to close my eyes
to chase away
the future's
shadows' play
repaint my past
with white, so white -
the moment is
all that's left -
'cause it is
a moment is all
I have - I wish
desperately, oh
so desperately
for it to stay forever
with no need for fear -
'coward!' you say
pray tell, why
would I not be
happy this way?
right now, right
here -
where time stops -
and tomorrow
does not exist -
my failures, alas
cease too.
a coward, yes -
with feelings
hidden, silent
like the ocean
waiting - waiting
for the shadows,
the inevitable -
to rip my soul,
to destroy it all -
as to save the light
but my soul?
is ripped in two
unloved, undone
but, I'm alive...
... ain't I?
Any comments are greatly appreciated! I always reply :)
Also, does anybody know how to do Single Line Breaks? Didn't work for me, so I had to use these lines...