The Parting

Ten years ago today i put you to rest my love
Etched into my memory is the image of you dying
Holding my hand and crying,
I still remember, on your bed you were lying
Parting was inevitable we both knew
But the pain of seperation being what it is
I looked at you with burning embers on my heart
I remember as if it were yesterday

Dragging ourselves through the desert of travail
Offering fleeting solace to each other
Promises we made to one another
Of a life beyond this life
As we spake of our vows, eternal to ourselves
Death crept in beside us
Tolling the bells of eternal silence
I remember as if it were yesterday

I knew your eyes closed, never to open again
The knife of pain slipped through my heart
Slashing my mettle to shreds of pain
The raging river of tears broke loose
I knew i lost my life, my love
Nevermore and nothing to live for
Returning to my senses, reminding myself of the task
That lay at hand
I placed two silver coins upon your eyes
and made a silent prayer to the boatman to take you across
I remember as if it were yesterday

Now my turn has come my love
Time is but what seperates our unison
Our promises fulfilled at last
I long to join you across the river
My soul is irked and no more i can take
Long years measured in sorrow, anguish and pain
The time has come to end the run
I wistfully wait for the tolling bells

Alas, i remember my fateful mistake
In my yearning to join you
Someone to place the coins upon my eyes
Did i overlook
The boatman shalt not carry me to you, across the river
Forever i shall roam the nether in your reminiscence
As i lay here a storm upon me and tears in my eyes
Death creeps in beside me and with my last breath
I think to myself
Our parting is now eternal, goodbye my love....


The reference to the boatman and the river is this. The river is the eternal body of water that seperates life and death. To go to the afterlife after death one must cross the river in the boatman's boat. But the boatman needs two silver coins for this. This is part of Greek mythology and partly the fiction in my head. This was just in my head for a very long time and i felt i needed to write it, good or bad.

 

^^ liked it.
nicely composed...

 

Jolly good, thanks a lot for reading mate.

 

it sent a chill down me spine :

 

Awww, sorry honey.....didntcha like the poem?.......

 

brrr......stop scaring me!!!!!!!

Nicely composed!!!

 

hehe.. no, silly :grin: i love it

 

lol, why's it scaring everyone? Though in a weird way i am quite flattered. Thanks for reading buddy.
@Cryptic, thank you very much darling :grin:

 

^^^^ don mind ^^^
but the peom reminds me of the movie "THe Ring"
i luved that one!!

 

it didnt scare me... that's not exactly what i meant by the "chill down my spine"

 

@ujsen,That is high praise brotha, thank you. And no, everyone's perception differs, i dont mind at all.

@Cryptic, heh, i think i'm qualified to tell the difference, my mistake though for generalising. And as i read it a few times i guess i can see the chiller downer sender :grin:

 

Hmmm......i read your poem many times and everytime i read it i had goosebumps all over my body.

magnificient imagery and what can i say you have surely good command on the composition.

 

^What can i say, indeed, i greatly appreciate you taking the time to read my poem. Thank you very very much.

 

Aaahhh... I dont want to read any poem now. (i'm saying this before reading the poem).

 

^Ah haha, no problem brotha :grin:

 

my goodness...it was actually like...couldnt take my eyes of the lines...one after another..one poke after another..sitting still...ah cant find words!!...pretty stirring!...hmm..

 

^I gather that you liked it then?

 

@ disturbed... HOLY CRAP!!!!!! i SWEAR... CAN I KILL U! i can't BELIEVE U SAID U COULDN'T RITE!!!!! UFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!! ALLAAAAAAA HAI! CHA GAYE HO I SWEAR! reps! :rock:

 

^Haha, you can kill me anyday. Your replies make my day, thanks a lot for reading and for your post :grin:

 

yeaaaaaaa....... my replies make his day!!!! :rule:



kidding man...... AWESOME WORK... have to spread more to rep u...