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[Egddios]

I came across this poem by Finnish poet Kaarlo Sarkia and thought I'd share. I especially enjoy the ending, the imagery, the lilacs. Reminds me of the lilac bush in the backyard of my childhood home.

Your joy is only moment's exhalation,
at most a blink of eye is your dejection.
As sweetly falls your silent sleep's protection
you sink in soft earth's breast, like wheat's oblation.​

Thus Beauty, whose completed germination
was hindered by unfinished life's perfection,
will in your dying see a resurrection –
a thousand-fold its great reanimation.​

For when you're in your grave you're handed over
to probing roots of lilac and of lime tree,
to buds the sap is drawn above the clover​

aflame to burst in summer's honeyed finery
of blossomed trees, and so your radiant dreaming
will sweet fulfilment find in springtime's teeming.​

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In Finnish:

Vain henkäyksen verran riemus kesti,
vain silmänräpäyksen tuskas syvä.
Maan helmaan lempeään kuin peltoon jyvä
nukahdat hiljaa, uinut suloisesti.​

Niin Kauneus, min täyden kasvun esti
tään elos vajavuus, nyt täydentyvä
on kuolemassas, muotoon ylentyvä
kukoistavaan ja uuteen tuhannesti.​

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Maa sinut sireenien, niinipuiden​

suo hautaas haparoiviin valkojuuriin,​

vie suonet umpuihin, ja suvikuiden​

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tulessa kukkiin hunajaisiin, suuriin​

puut puhkeaa – näin untes säteileväin
suloista täyttymystä kantaa keväin.​

Translation by Rupert Moreton​

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[mesohappy]

From childhoods hour I have not been
As others were- I have not seen
As others saw- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring-
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone-
And all I lov'd- I lov'd alone-
Then- in my childhood-in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent,or the fountain-
From the red cliff of the mountain-
From the sun that 'round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold-
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by-
From the thunder and the storm-
And the clouds that took the form
(when the rest of heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view-

Alone by Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[BlueWidow]

Demolished

You are life
So strange and cold
You cannot hold my burning soul
You are, you are my life

Your days of madness past
Of midnight tears and future fears
You're never just today

You're the place between the doors
Where my heart lives but never knows
The comfort or the beauty of
My own sweet love
My sweet demolished love

You are life
So strange and cold
You cannot hold my angry soul
You are, you are my life

-Terry Ann Daughterty, 1991

 

[Backwood_tilt]

Darling your love is like walking a bed of nails
and i just can't, keep on fighting

 

[Dead Horse]

The City BY C. P. CAVAFY
TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY

You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I've spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally."

You won't find a new country, won't find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You'll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there's no ship for you, there's no road.
Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

William Woodsworth

"The World Is Too Much With Us"
The World is too much with us us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. -- Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.​

 

[avoid_slow_death]

My Dying Bride - To Remain Tombless

The weary creak of my bones
Exhausted voice, deathly tones
Arms of lead, skin drawn tight
No long a princely sight
Face is gaunt, pale and thin
Bent and grey and full of sin

Pass to me
Wine and song
For I'll be
Soon long gone

Cast me down, upon the dust
My dry bones remain tombless
From my life, a rose is grown
Rains they come. The winds
Blow

Winter haunts me
Nowhere to flee

Take me back. Young was I
Within her arms we could fly
Grey am I, and all alone
I feel like I'm far from home

Grace has fled here
But He is so near
In shadows lie
My hopes of life

Black wings fold me
In their symphony
Long the winter nights are
Grace is so far

Leaves they fall in time
Drifting down in time
Darkness comes, right on time

Descend upon me
Wings from above
Goodbye to lie
Farewell my loves

 

[lambgf]

I felt your sickness brush against my arm as I walked by you -
Heard your voice but couldn't tell that it was you
And, slowly, watched your sickness slip away into a place
That I'd once feared but I was not afraid this time

So I gave chase and found it, finally
Slowly feeding from your head
And from my friends, and from my family
So I grabbed it by the neck

"For every lover you have ruined..."
I dug my nails into its flesh
"...and every life that you have taken..."
Slammed its head against the brick

Its blood poured out onto the pavement
I stirred it in with dirt and spit
"I will take a part of you."
I made mortar from the mix

Tore every organ from its body
Broke its bone and fashioned bricks
I laid the mortar in between
I made a throne for hope to sit

"Too long you've torn us into pieces
Firmly held onto our wrists
Today I bury you in me."
I swallowed every inch of it

La Dispute, The Last Lost Continent

 

[SnowWhite]

You say you'll struggle to continue with no wind in your sail,
But regardless of the breeze I'll make sure you prevail.
I'll help you navigate when I'm dancing with stars.
You'll take on the world and heal from its scars.
I know that you can grow stronger even if you are alone.
Look to the sky knowing you were never on your own.
Even when I'm up high all I want is the best for you.
What you want will be yours if you pursue.
I may be gone but I'm still by your side.
Why sail when you can glide?

 

[LivedTooLong]

There is a Languor of the Life
More imminent than Pain—
'Tis Pain's Successor—When the Soul
Has suffered all it can—

A Drowsiness—diffuses—
A Dimness like a Fog
Envelops Consciousness—
As Mists—obliterate a Crag.

The Surgeon—does not blanch—at pain
His Habit—is severe—
But tell him that it ceased to feel—
The Creature lying there—

And he will tell you—skill is late—
A Mightier than He—
Has ministered before Him—
There's no Vitality.

— Emily Dickinson

 

[kinzokukae]

it gets worse at night
something's gotta give
i don't wanna die but i don't wanna live

 

[Stavrogin]

No one is ever going to want me by Giles Corey

Lyrics:

I'm armed to the teeth
like a fucking animal
I ruin everything
I get my bony hands on

and here we go, now
over the bridge of sighs
we will get a cross like christ, crucified
it's like a birth but it is in reverse
never gets better, always gets worse

I'll gnaw at anything
new england is mine, and
it owes me a living

step one
step two
step three
step four, we fall through the floor
fall through the floor
fall through the floor

I want to feel like I feel when I'm asleep

 

[overwhelming]

Every minute that we spend
There is something to break down for
So just change key
Keep your mind on me
You've got a lot to live for
You've got a lot to go for

"we cant afford your depression anymore"
car seat headrest