Poetry (Ver.2) Options

[Yuki Fukurou]

Heh...it seems my small poetry thread here was deleted during the attack. Oh well.



Anyway...(considering that I'm sometimes obssessed w/the subj. of death)...I've decided to write another poem. (This...by far has got to be the best one I've written on the subject).



Death & Dying:



Death?such a scary fate & reality

And a hard way to accept.



We wish for our loved ones to be with us forever

But we know that cannot be.



We sometimes think life is unfair,

Yet it?s a lesson we have to learn.



It comes unexpectedly; we hardly notice it?s there,

Some people think it?s nothing, they really don?t care.



Yet once it happens, we can?t stop it,

The realization, the shock, the news?is just too much to bear.



We?re filled with a sense of emptiness & grief,

Like a stab through the heart, like our lives are incomplete.



Yet through the grief & despair comes a ray of hope

A hope to see them again, someday.



Death is like parting, but it won?t be forever

So don?t feel down & keep grieving.



Instead, remember them for all the good they?ve done,

How they impacted your lives.



Memories are your partner now; they?ll never die,

And even though they?re not with us physically, but in spirit?



There?s always a special place for them in our hearts.

[Yuki Fukurou]

Anyway...here's another one I've made:



Falling Leaves:



There goes another leaf falling from the branches of an old tree

Changing color throughout the seasons, falling to the ground

It covers it all around

It shrivels up as it gets to fall,

And renews itself in the spring

It clings to the branch whenever the winds blow strong

And sometimes floats in the air or stumbles when being carried by the wind



And as soon as the wind stops, it falls everywhere

But sometimes it's dehydrated when there's noth enough water to help replenish it.

There goes another leaf, from the branches of antoehr tree, changing & falling.

"Do not be sad & do not weep, for not all tears...are from evil" - Gandalf, LOTR: Return of the King. (It's one of my favorite quotes from the movie)