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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Sonnet LXIX

Come here…I have a secret for you now…
I’m dead. And have been for a decade’s time.
How I have watched you live your earthly life.
I have much now to tell you, friend of old…

You still disgrace the dead, you mortal sprite.
The zombie mummies resting in their tombs
are pleased not by your laughs – beware your doom.
The cemetery waits for those who smirk.

My lifetime’s work’s now yours to judge…who cares?
How good it is to be a murdered soul!
I care not what you think nor tricks you pull...
Now taunts are useless! I am cold and dead.

And now I only speak because you need
a soul to understand and soothe your greed.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, I love this one. very interesting, not strange, kind of a warm and funny feeling. I like it how it points out the dead is so much more powerful than the living, opposite what many people think (like "I'll dance on your grave").

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  2. "I'll dance on your grave"? Did I write that? That's a good idea though. I never thought of warm and funny to describe it, but I guess sort of. I'm glad you like it though!

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  3. No, the "I'll dance on your grave" thing is just a saying, mostly said in books when two people are facing off, and one person taunting the other, saying he will definitely die by the guy's hand.

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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

- Emily Dickinson

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