| NJC: Things That End Badly | |
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Vin 05:09 am UTC 11/30/08 |
| This is a song / poem I recently finished. Thought I'd share here. Feedback appreciated. The Things That End Badly Once upon a time we had hope in our hearts This world was as fresh and as bright as you please The promise of life was a gift from the gods We worshipped so blindly, never a thought To the damage we do in the end to our knees These are the things that end badly These are the things that end sadly and dark These are the stories that bring tears to your eyes And these are the endings that must surely Break your heart Human ambition, Divine Intervention A grasp that exceeds or falls short of your reach The quest for perfection or stagnant contentment A night in Las Vegas! A day at the beach! The hero’s adventure, the tyrant’s regime The architect’s ego, the charlatan’s shame The tears of a widow, the tears of a bride Regardless of reason, sting the cheek all the same We’re the sons and the daughters of martyrs and madmen The nieces and nephews of nobles and whores We’re the children the gods of our fathers have long since abandoned And now that we know, we don’t care to go on But we have to Too scared not to And we died, miserably, ever after Once there was a girl who had blood on her hands Once there was a boy who refused to believe Her lips were so salty, he tasted no venom We love our illusions but pay little heed To the truths we deny for the fictions we weave These are the things that end badly These are the things that end nasty and cruel To these awful conclusions there are no exceptions And here comes the climax, dreadful indeed Brutally proves the rule A kiss before dying, a wish on a star That probably burnt out centuries before The embrace of a loved one, as tight as you hold them Sooner or later you’ll hold them no more The conception of life! The cry of a child! A mother’s best hopes, a father’s worst fears Graduations and weddings and subsequent funerals Regret and nostalgia, the passage of years! But if birth can only end badly… Exactly! How can anything after end anything but??? We’re the distant descendants of kings and of cavemen We count as our ancestors wizards and fools But the torch that they passed us was too hot and too bright to handle For more than a moment, or stare at directly But we looked and we touched Too hard not to And we burned and went blind, painful and slow, ever after | |
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