thoughts

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    • catarino
    • Cultures come to conquer and their gods applaud.

    thoughts

    I had time.
    my father was a child
    and now he's dying.

    death makes us whole.

    my son will one day
    stay up trying to remember
    where he's been, and
    where I went.

    old women forget .
    swinging their arms
    as they walk,
    made of stars,
    they regret nights
    where they are.

    decisions destroy us,
    but death is forgiving.

    death makes us whole, again.

    time is deceptive, yet
    we lend our mind to it-
    counting the minutes we live.

    I held love in my hands
    without ever understanding-
    the weight of stars is comparable
    to that of a whisper (each
    hurts when distant),
    and each
    exists within space-
    like a shared
    fear of uncertainty growing within a hole.

    and death is the hole that makes us.

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    SavVySam commented on thoughts

    11-11-2009

    That is so very deep...requiring much contemplation and more a few re-reads! my favorite stanza'time is deceptive, yet we lend our minds to it-counting the minutes we live."

    NenaT commented on thoughts

    08-08-2009

    A very logical, forthright look at death. The rhythm of it is mesmerizing so that the idea of death is not at all frightening. You are very, very good, Catarino.

    lightcourier commented on thoughts

    05-19-2009

    nice work. beautiful descriptive wrapped in a conundrum. Thanks!

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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