Where can we, locked in this horrible mortal suit take peaceful sleep?
Where is this palace of internal gold, that all of the others
dream and talk so quietly of? Where? That fortress Aquarius
is said to softly caress at the acidic tear that smothers
away at the thin iridescent bindings of all various
lives. Where can it be that the lightened eternal all-happy keep?
Nowhere; for their is no fortress that could extinguish real true weep
for a castle's impenetrable walls are built with cold darkness.
How, of being doomed in this plague of organic plush flesh and mess,
can one that be of so fragile a body find a grinning rest?
Beneath this hot quilt, a sauna of trouble, all this sweat and toil
sets the skin to fire and burn. A life as this is at it's best
a witches pot all left to hindering flames to bubble and boil.
Some see a world where hell fire warms the skin in a caress
and melt the cold heart, however I have felt only the distress
this shell has brought to me and the whimpered cry of a vengeful lust.
Oh, my heart and soul is set soon, I can only plead, just to bust.
I can no longer breath this thick air, it gives me only tragic!
Yet, see, I can see of an escape wreaking from this vile life.
To sleep would bring me only visions, just simple dreams of magic
where the steps feel of velvet and bottled in boxes lie my strife,
and the sober winds lie low, soft, warm, not like the hideous gust
that fierce and drunken blows o'er the lands. Yet the conscious does not trust
the episodes of dark nightmares that a breathing sleep will conjure.
Author notes
Option 2: Hamlet
This is not about religion or heaven or hell. It does not talk about if their is a heaven and hell, I want to make sure people don't read that into it. This poem is in response to reading Shakespeare's Hamlet (more specifically Hamlets "TO be or Not to be" soliloquy). It simply questions weather human mortal life can give off true happiness or is man inherited to endure pain. Ask for further interpretation and explanation.
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Comments
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I could easily get wrapped up in this and ponder it for hours. A nicely done piece here.
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not bad at all. you've done pretty good with this. you've made a 15 for this poem as well, bringing your points total to 48. Great work and thanks for entering the best of luck. Kahy
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Fantastic
Wow! Cassie, this poem is really remarkable. I can't believe how much you have grown as a writer. This is really deep and profound, and quite the tremendous verbal cascade indeed. BRAVO!!!!
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