A Common Pain

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The last part in French roughly translates to : For you my brother in life / I offer what I can / Tears in form of words / written for your pain / written for your heart and your tears / And so for your suffering / I say a prayer / On the Moon that governs / All the buried dead...

A Common Pain

A friend in life
Asks nothing in his death
Except, perhaps, your tears,
That every drop may nurture
The ground he finds his bones

But all I feel is selfish loss
Hands bathed in blood,
Eyes, glazed in understanding,
Tears never falling,
Defying the pull of gravity
To drown me instead,

For every death I've seen,
For every friend I've comforted,
For every stranger I've met
I call you brother and sister,
I find myself with you
At moments of despair,
For I have seen death,
I have seen life taken,
I know,

Pour toi mon frere en vie
J'offre ce que je peu,
Des larmes en formes de mots,
Ecrit pour tout ta peine
Ecrit pour ton coeur et t'es larmes,
Alors pour ton souffrance
Je dit une priere,
Sur la Lune qui gouverne
Tout les morts entere... 

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starfox115 commented on A Common Pain

02-24-2010

nice poem. this poem , however is for people who are dual linguistic.

Utopia666999

02/24/2010

Yes sorry about that, tried to put an accurate translation above, Thanks for the comment.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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