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Epitaphs to a homeless person

by feggyr-citack

-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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feggyr-citack
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Time
2m
Notes

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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