A poem... my longest one yet. It's another one about Aeris's death. I was inspired to write it after reading and analyzingOde on Melancholy, by John Keats, for English. The imagery in it was so beautiful and just moved me... I dunno. I felt I had to try to write something like that, though my poetry hardly compares.
Well... read on!
Love's Requiem
Here I stand,
Knee-deep in Her wake
World-weary waves
They give and they take
If I plunged myself
In the abyss beneath me
Would I then forget?
By some kind river Lethe?
Will sweet seraphs smile
And float by my name
To drown me so gently?
No, never again
I shall see her fair face
No, no, not again
It is light-beams I chase
Yes, a chimera that baits
with yew-berries, strung tightly
An illusion of a gate
On unyielding ground
I knell before its red bars
I grovel and beg
My mouth dripping with tar
She stands before me now
My sight's swimming with bile
She moves closer now
" Cloud…it's been awhile"
I try to speak
But I'm choking on regrets
Blood pours from Her lips
And She smiles...grotesque
Her bone-brittle fingers
Clutch between the red bars
" You didn't save me"
Her face hangs, like a star
Alone in the sky
I back away then,
The seraphs don't fly
But pierce Her, yes,
A poignant thrust
She falls and She stares
Clutching broken, Her trust.
There's no one to catch Her
She's falling forlorn
And sinking so slowly
As I watch and I mourn
The gate's closed
The light's lost
Like a morning rose,
Dead by dusk
With dew drop tears
My reflection is cloudy
Nothing is clear
She's gone, I know
But I can see
Her cold finger, accusing
"You didn't save me"
Finished! One of my first rhyming poems too, I'm very proud of myself! I kind of depressed myself by writing this, but I'm over it now.Hahaha. So, tell me what you think. Any input would be greatly appreciated! If I get enough reviews, I mean even write a couple more poems to go with this one.
"Don't blame your knowledge on, some fruit you ate."
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