Ode to Lamentation
What is it makes us yearn?
Lonely in peculiar ways?
Is it only hearts of Romantics
That connect to life’s gauzy haze?
What of a past we must give up?
Nights in love’s joyous cloud?
Is it so simple to pass and merely
Become one with the crowd?
What mocks us most in life?
The mistakes we made in our pace?
The glory that might have been?
Or the wrinkles upon our face?
Does dimension lie beyond this orb?
Does Heaven or Hell Await?
Tis written, ‘ours not to know’?
Doth then we yield to fate?
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©Billy Ray Chitwood – April 6, 2019
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I'm a young man in an old man's body, trying to catch up to myself, trying to find pieces of me I left back in a disconnected youth and the early years of manhood. I'm a stereotype of many in my generation who can play the 'blame game', yell 'foul', and 'let's start over'. But, we are what we are, the sum of all the scary kid-emotions we experienced, the gin mills and piano bars that became our sandboxes of pleasure - lotus eaters of the best (or, worst) kind, the love affairs that did not quite settle us down, the sad poetry and songs written in bars and motels along the way... A Dreamer! A Wanderlust! The world needs such fools as we to write our books, our poetry, our songs, to offset the madness that plagues the soul.
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Another thought-provoking piece, Billy Ray. Well done.
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Thanks much, good John. ♥
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Lamentations seem to accompany the latter years of one’s life. Perhaps it’s because we have the time to pause, to look back. Perhaps it’s because life has helped us see the ramifications of the choices we have made or avoided. Your beautiful poem has given me much to think about. ♥
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Ah, thank you, Dear Gwen, for your lovely response. Your words mean a lot to me. ♥♥
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A beautiful poem that makes us think!
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Thank you, Denise, for your response. Have a wonderful week ahead. ♥♥
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Thank you, you as well!
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-:)
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I would say…Musings, not Lamentation, as nothing could mock us now Billy. Heaven or Hell? Who knows but we won’t be alive to see! 🙂
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Thank you, Balroop, for responding. Have a great week ahead. ♥
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I figure there must be a reason we’re not wired to “know” what’s on the other side. But I think I’ve been there – too fast – a time or two. I think it’s beyond wonderful.
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Your last line gives me hope! Yet, I’ve been such a scoundrel in this orbiting venture! ♥
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Well written, Billy Ray. xox
eden
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Thanks, sweet lady…♥xo
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