Why did you have to go through all that hell
To get to paradise?
Is it paradise?
How would I know?
Who insisted that we had to believe in paradise?
Who so wisely tried to prevent us from getting crazy?
I am all the same
But I try to behave myself
Why did you live that hell before, during and after during again?
And I kill myself a bit everyday so as to stay away
But those sudden visists of sanity drive me mad
And the constant confusion reigns
Because that’s what I learned
Ever even when innocence made sense
Why did I have to be witness to your hell?
Why do I inhabit here yet
And I kill myself a bit everyday so as to forget
But that never helped
Will never help
At times when I look at his little beautiful face…
But I also look at the self in the mirror
And tell her cry no more
And while I dry the tears
I cheer her up
With the old statements, like
I could take the new path
There is always a new path, the chance
The choice
But if I took that path just 30 centimetres wide
Up in the highest mountain
Any wrong step would make a fall into calling flames
So I kill myself slowly
Knowing that does not take me to paradise
Not even for a second
Will not make the approach faster
If only I could go to sleep and then
No then, no then what
No questions
No judgements
No more stress
This stress
Killing me little by little every single day
Killing me slowly
Tomorrow you’ll have to go on again
In the hope that the attack is softer
And you’ll clean the house and buy flowers
So that the killing is less harmful
And for a moment you’ll believe something is worth it
And so you can smile
And pretend everything’s ok
Just like yesterday
Despite his farewell through hell...
6 comments:
pretending can only last so long...evocative write dulce
Without facing reality we get stuck in this wheel of everything is ok and becomes a vicious cycle. We will never be able to move on ... stuck in a rut.
Dulce...your Brother.
He is gone from now
But he's waiting somehow
Somewhere
Over there
Waiting to reveal to you
The whole lot of what's true
Here, and here...and here
He is so far--and yet so NEAR!
You DO feel him, is that not correct?
Be at PEACE with this, and not too concerned with believing in a 'paradise or otherwise' which seems to trouble you...at this time.
Quite a free unleashing of the heart's lament here. How wonderfully you have strung religion, emotions, hope and words!
Quite a poignant read that disturbed me, dear Dulce.
I wish you joy, eternal joy always,
Susan
A therapeutic poem. It's always good to let things go in this way--in a creative way, instead of letting them tear us apart from the insides and destroy our lives.
My brother is gone from here, too. Little by little I live for him, yet little by I little I die for him, too.
Thank you for sharing your bittersweet words.
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