infectedmushroom
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I wrote this in the light of the current battle I'm undertaking with my mothers breast cancer. We have lost many close friends, indeed best friends, to cancer in the past couple of years. It seems like death is constantly by our sides.
I'm still quite young, and being forced to contemplate mortality as I have has helped me grow as a person and take life affirming lessons away from what is by first appearances nothing more than a tragic, terrifying inevitability.
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I thought it true and certain
My love was locked away
A distant fading vista
A landscape long foregone
From depths unchecked again it swells and churns within my chest
This feeling re-emerging
Which once I thought was dead.
It's not for man or girl or land
I've kindled this new burning
It's for the world and human kind
My Amore is yearning.
A will to love and be loved back
As hungry as can be
As life is short and death is long
A constant ghost to me.
See death he creeps and haunts my dreams
My spirit does resist
And in the time that I have left
It's love I do insist.
It's love I will persist
To seek and always hold
My cynical and leathered heart has been rebound in gold.
I dream that years unfold,
Of romance kin and clan
My children laughing happily
The most highest of plans
And as I slowly come of age,
My teenage angst behind me
Even now, the truth be told
Death dwells here right beside me
He's come and let himself reside
So high up in my vision
By seeking those closest to me
He undertakes his mission
But till he strikes and does his job my love he cannot rob; it seems in spite of what he does I won't regress and sob
I'll end this note with death in mind and send him this clear message - by being close you've done me good and taught me count my blessings.
I'm still quite young, and being forced to contemplate mortality as I have has helped me grow as a person and take life affirming lessons away from what is by first appearances nothing more than a tragic, terrifying inevitability.
----------
I thought it true and certain
My love was locked away
A distant fading vista
A landscape long foregone
From depths unchecked again it swells and churns within my chest
This feeling re-emerging
Which once I thought was dead.
It's not for man or girl or land
I've kindled this new burning
It's for the world and human kind
My Amore is yearning.
A will to love and be loved back
As hungry as can be
As life is short and death is long
A constant ghost to me.
See death he creeps and haunts my dreams
My spirit does resist
And in the time that I have left
It's love I do insist.
It's love I will persist
To seek and always hold
My cynical and leathered heart has been rebound in gold.
I dream that years unfold,
Of romance kin and clan
My children laughing happily
The most highest of plans
And as I slowly come of age,
My teenage angst behind me
Even now, the truth be told
Death dwells here right beside me
He's come and let himself reside
So high up in my vision
By seeking those closest to me
He undertakes his mission
But till he strikes and does his job my love he cannot rob; it seems in spite of what he does I won't regress and sob
I'll end this note with death in mind and send him this clear message - by being close you've done me good and taught me count my blessings.