Carpe Diem! Or How You Let Go Of the World and Held onto Me

Come with me then, and we will leave

For the world is gone, all flesh and bone

A moment ago I was hesitant

But I saw your eyes, and they beckoned

I have seen desire in them, and love and joy

Have measured it by the light of dawn

Found its shining luster sweep into the horizon 

For in lonely nights have I walked

Flanked by buildings that sap the juice of life

I have seen beggars prowling the streets

Feeding on the leftovers of capricious greed

A greed that cannot be satiated 

Craving for a vicarious joy they don’t need

In pursuit of which the night bleeds

Come with me then, and I shall take your hand

I shall be the picaresque hero of our story

And you shall be its valiant heroine

And we will burn the past into shreds of nothingness

While I sing a song to soothe your bitter heart

While I sing a song to soothe your bitter hurt

For in blinding summers have I seen

People latched into their oyster shell homes

Afraid to leave lest the world swallows them whole

Living their lives in unadmitted agony

Knowing neither the crests of joy nor the troughs of pain

Knowing not what it takes, knowing not what one can

Come with me then, while there is still time

Time to jump off proud cliffs

To take long forgotten streets

To crash against the scream of waves

To breathe in the life of sleeping seas

A time to burn the past in ashes of black and white

And in the still darkness find the hidden light

© Siddhartha, 2013

Reviews

[Marie]

A great deal of passion in this poem...not only for love but for life....