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Renewal of Our Vows - NPWM 9 by Haegun, literature
Renewal of Our Vows - NPWM 9
De mortuis nil nisi bonum
Say nothing but good of the dead
Unless they come back to visit
Nightly and fill your life with dread.
“Omnia vincit amor,”
Love conquers all things, she said
“et nos cedaus amori”
Let us yield to love instead.
Her lips met mine and so we kissed
Her breath smelled of the grave
Her eyes met mine and I was trapped
And lost my chance my soul to save.
“Mors mihi lucrum,” she did say
“Death to me is reward,’ and now
I will offer the same to you
Eternal life I do bestow
“Mors tua, vita mea”
Your death, my life
A happy trade I would say
Take me again as your wife
-live by zoeweems, literature
-live
another day
pen falls to my planner
check, check, check
more tasks I completed
how organized
and modest it seems
to simplify hours
down to papered lists
robotic routines
lack pleasure & passion
but are rarely left
unfinis...
unfathomably boring
leading lead feet
so I took off my shoes
and barefoot, I traversed
trembling unknown
with my lists
and my pen
so I could compl...
ugh, so type A
exhaustion-a friend
with an organized list
and unorganized mind
where does one begin
to line up the thoughts
and the memories
to check each of them off?
my mind is an orchard
with no pathways
to pick fruits
from my branches
I sleepwalk in sunlight
an
