Together and Alive

by Matthias L. - Capricorn

with friends surrounded I sit and wait
while listening to these familiar melodies
written by some different minds
but in some way still the same

 I can't really grasp it yet
 why everything we've tried to live for
 was such a futile thing
 that in less than a decade
 falls with the same system
 from which it had spawned

but that was yesterday and now
I lie in bed and close my eyes
where everyone still shares
the old feelings more intensely than before
it's a dream but it's still waking

  I don't want to look ahead
  tomorrow may be fine and maybe some more days
  but once we all are done
  the bonds we made are broken 
  and so we celebrate
  the death of our waking years
  hopes and dreams, illusions, fears
  and always somewhere inbetween
  the premonition that one day
  the "good night" will be final
  once we all are gone

so I hold the line
for the silence never speaks such words
it is my last refuge
although I know it's wrong
it allows me to believe
that in the end we will emerge
together and alive

Birth sign: Capricorn
Date created: 2001-04-05 15:26:47
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:43:59
Poem ID: 61649

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