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-for Easter, on a body appearing in the melting snow You can see now... you can breathe, freely: nothing can touch you now.      Cry, suffer, die ...for a brother      - by brothers you may live. Every person has his breaking point, I turned to drugs to ease the pain. Do look down on me, a mirror, having you reborn, a man again.      Innocent like a still-born child,      faithful like a sleeping foetus,      ready like a falling seed. Today it's me, tomorrow... you.
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Apr 12, 2017
Apr 12, 2017 at 8:44 AM UTC
Epitaphs to a homeless person
-for Easter, on a body appearing in the melting snow You can see now... you can breathe, freely: nothing can touch you now.      Cry, suffer, die ...for a brother      - by brothers you may live. Every person has his breaking point, I turned to drugs to ease the pain. Do look down on me, a mirror, having you reborn, a man again.      Innocent like a still-born child,      faithful like a sleeping foetus,      ready like a falling seed. Today it's me, tomorrow... you.
Let them sleep roughly now. Stanza#1 quotes a woman who lives on the streets, lamenting her halfbrother who died of hypothermia while drinking alcohol in the freezing cold. Stanza#2 is from a Canadian war cemetry in Europe (pro amicis mortui amicis vivimus - paraphrased) Stanza#3 depicts death inside of us, while we live in good health. Stanza#4 I would really like on my grave (wishful thinking of course). Stanza#5 quotes the good old Roman hodie mihi, cras tibi.
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Apr 12, 2017
Apr 12, 2017 at 8:44 AM UTC
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