To live is to die.

Let me have one summer more
bathed in light on a western shore
before I walk on through the door.

There I'll taste your softest kiss.
No mortal man can bear such bliss,
beholding all, forsaking this.

These old bones might last a while
yet pleasure here can not beguile
the sufferings of an earthly trial.

Take this old and wrinkled wreck
to stand on your resplendent deck -
the home stretch of my fleshly trek.




Poetry by An-ders
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Written on 2024-07-22 at 23:04

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D G Moody The PoetBay support member heart!
A good 'old fashioned' poem, that has a good rhyme - I liked it a lot
2024-07-23


Sameen The PoetBay support member heart!
Beautiful, just beautiful. The rhythm. The tale. The rhymes. Amazing.
2024-07-23