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Requiem for a dead lover
- comment to Zoya Zaidi's "I mourn for Joshua"

Compassion

Let me share your tears and blend them with my own.
There is too much to always cry for,
and the oceans never can get full of all the human tears,
although they overwhelm the ocean waters with their saltiness,
since there is no end to sorrows and no bottom to their abyss,
the sorrow fountain being constantly replenished,
and the waves of tears irrevocably growing and increasing like tsunamis
in their overwhelmingness and irresistibility.

And there is no sorrow deeper than when love is dying,
the supreme momentum thereof being
suicide for love.

Here falls the silence,
words can not express the grief,
the tears will choke all voices into silence
which will boom with the appalling overwhelmingness of death
re-echoing in all eternity,
for there's no sound or power more tremendous
than the silent grief and sorrow for a true love that was lost.

Poetry by Christian Lanciai