SigilA Poem by Archipelagofirst version, needs some editingWho do you think you are? Standing in the mouth of the cave Answering your own echoes with the repeated cry “Lazarus, Lazarus Come forth from those dark depths” But no one escaped the cave Save the echoes Who do you think you are? Telling men that there is life beyond the grave Everything that was, is, and shall be Fades away, and is swallowed Into the inescapable cave From dust we came And dust is our destination And from dark nothingness came the dust And surely nothingness shall follow What there was before our birth Awaits us in the end In the deepest portions of the cave Into which we must all descend And when the mountains have been worn to sand And the cities have been burned to glass And the plagues have overflowed the graveyards Like swollen rivers in the rain And the Moon has left the Earth And the Sun has burnt to coal And the seas have frozen over Still you will be there Stubbornly alive Alone beyond the grave Defiantly enduring Ignorant and blind Unwilling or unknowing Of the fate that awaits us all Still calling into the cave “Lazarus, Lazarus” © 2009 ArchipelagoAuthor's Note
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Added on December 26, 2009 Last Updated on December 26, 2009 AuthorArchipelagoNJAboutI like writing. It relieves stress. I'm in college. - - - - - "When you saw, far off, the heavy fate approaching, did you not say to the mountains, “hide me”, to the hills, “fall.. more..Writing
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