Inviting Death

Death breathes it's lively breath

Prevailing against all vanity in life

Surpassing the strongholds Sorrow

calming grief, joy and pain

Death would you lay with me

Bereave me of my earthly woes

Lift me from the nightly throes

Lay me down to rest in peace

Forever this silent solitude

Shall be unfathomable

To all those still breathing

And those soon to come

Vain is all the laughter

As vain are all the smiles

For it soon will turn pain

The Joy will turn to grief

"How I long for the freedom

Of knowing nothing of my travail

How I yearn for this careworn heart

To forsake every emotion learnt"

"O death will your cold caress

accept the warmest invitation

My warm skin longs for your

Frozen embrace of Ignorance

And of Bliss....”

Reviews

[LilyLily]

Love the last part, very nice word choice!

[Larry Dyson]

perhaps...Vain(trifling) is all the laughter


In vain as are all the smiles

[Faiza Iqbal]

Nice!! :D

[Mary Fioratti]

Death.. something so difficult to talk about (at least for me). And you wrote in a beautiful way. "Prevailing against all vanity in life"... many many times I think this.. all the vanity for just nothing. Loved the way you wrote this: "Death would you lay with me Bereave me of my earthly woes Lift me from the nightly throes
Lay me down to rest in peace"
This las sentence is so powerful...
*Mary*

[TawnyBlueStar]

this is a great poem :)
even used one of my favourite words - 'unfathomable' XD
love the last stanza