Tears rot away
Publication date: 2023-10-23
Title: Tears rot away
Type: Poetry
Publication: Rinnan Lit.
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Tears rot away
Tears rot away
when blood no longer flows
and the corpse once alive
rattles in the wooden grave.
Death parts us all
from the breast of life,
throws us under our fates
bleeding, sweating, whimpering,
fighting, clawing and scratching
towards the light
but end is end.
When the priest blesses
your legacy and name
and your family huddles
and throws the dirt
to seal you in your wooden cage,
your eyes shut with earth
to seal the door to the living world
and sobs and cries
are your final marks in the dying world.