Toss a coin; watch the heart decay.
One to live and one to die,
Heaven has been erased.
Hell is only a flip away.
Eu não posso segurar isto por muito tempo
One side, the coin decides our fate,
Neither living, nor breathing
Yet still grasping onto a life,
That’s starting far too late.
Vivendo sem uma vida
Flip the coin and reverse the dreams,
Futures untold, life’s on the road.
Bleeding subfusc tones from decaying skin,
Soaking up fairyland’ish screams.
Estou esperando o abraço doce da morte
Flip the coin, unable to choose a side.
A toss that’s far from simple,
Spinning ubiquitously and out of control.
Flip the coin and initiate the joy ride.
Apenas uma vez, é só isso que eu preciso
Pick a side, accept the lie.
Let the carnage inhabit your mind,
Destroy thoughts and flick the coin.
One to live and one to die.
Um para viver, e um para morrer
Author notes
Ok then, this may be a little forced in places but I was half forcing the words to come out because i needed them gone. One side of the coin is suicide, breaking down, going to a happy place. while the other side is staying alive, but living as if dead, bleak, unhappy, you get the point. Anyway - enjoy.
(Subfusc - dark and dull; dingy; drab
ubiquitously - existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent)
Meanings from www.dictionary.com
Edit - Ok then, I added in some Portuguese line between the stanzas.
It roughly reads -
Eu não posso segurar isto por muito tempo - I can't hold on much longer.
Vivendo sem uma vida - Living without a life.
Estou esperando o abraço doce da morte. - I'm waiting for deaths sweet embrace.
Apenas uma vez, é só isso que eu preciso - Just once, thats all I need.
Um para viver, e um para morrer. - One to live, another to die.
Please tell me what you think
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this poem i could relate to in a way im unsure of but it touched me in a speical place =]
kudos <3
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this.is.awesome. i absolutely LOVE the use of 2 languages. this was so deep!! i also like the use of big words. congratulations on this awesome poem.
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Bloody Awesome
Oh f**k yeah sis this is one helluva killer dark poem. I love the brutal concept to the basis of this poem. the mere idea of deciding your fate by a mere heads or tails spin flip of the coin reminds me of the movie The Dark Night when that Harvey Dent characte rhas his face brutally burned in a freak accident & long version short he held onto his lucky coin and lmao became 2 face. any ways awesome write loved it alot. 3 clappys from me
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Hmm... qute dark, but a very good read. Sorry if it seems callous, but i can't quite help but remember the prawn crackers...
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Hiya angel
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this is a greatb piece I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of the harvey dent character in the new bat man movie how he decides a fate with the flip of a coin. Nice work here
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This is an awesome write Claire-Anne...dark and desperate...and showing that many of life's decisions are similar to the toss of a coin..one side we live, one side we die...but, ultimately..we all end up on the same side...Deaths slumbering companion...
Bravo
'D'
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*waves* Hi D
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