Ruins and Relics

Poem I created. Sort of symbolic of Pearl Harbor and World War II

 

There’s nothing really there.

Really what we see is just thin air.

Decrepit memories of deceitful days.

But that’s not all we see

Rather what we see is what we want

Relics meant to represent that which was but is now long since past.

A sinister reminder that all which is eventually must pass.

It could be anywhere we go; it could be like a show

Whether in the searing heat or the cold as snow air

In rarely traveled mountain tops with abundant thin air

Or in the scalding deserts swimming with blinding sand as far as the eye can see

Yet what we see is what we get and we are all often prone to forget

That lying there is all there is

Even our lives, destined it is

Ruins and Relics to lie after we die.  

 

Eventually we all must see

Twined it is with our destiny

Forever more we will be seen

As just something caught in between

A beginning and an end, the endless stream

The water trickling through the seem

Each particle identical nothing more to seem

Individuality will be lost and with it no cost

Ever person, everywhere, eventually lost

Ill begotten and time forgotten

Just Ruins and Relics to lie after we die

 

Though we can always try

It seems easier to live and let die

Than to hold onto the thought of life

And submit ourselves to endless pain and strife

In hopes of achieving that which we need

The chance at success of that one deed

All semblance of sanity put into one source

That which we try so much to hold course

Wars and more fought for it

Countless lives thrown into the pit

But in the end that which we must resort

To Ruins and Relics to lie after we die

In the pursuit of that thing called EGO

Author's Note

Sorry if its ruff just finished it.

Reviews

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Peter
I like the basic content and story line..I urge you to improve your flow, make your poems musical..I am no critic, but I know when something is easy to read.
Keep writing, and post this again, after you tweek the "ruff" out of it. If you do post again, send me an e mail, I'd like to read the new version..
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[Shannon Math]

Nice write. :)