Monday, October 7, 2013

Sonnet XVI: Afterlife


I thought I saw my afterlife withdrawn
From orchards fruiting many forlorn faces
And none too far, though, messengers of dawn
Holding firm, some souls with fading traces

I thought I saw my wife bid me goodbyes
And children wailing, calling out my name
But I had motionless, impassive eyes,
Which could not but portray a dying flame.

I thought I wanted peace from all that din
And age off, resting in a soundless place 
But never thought that it would be so rife
With affluence of grief, naked, wherein,
For all its bounty, I can't find solace.
It's absent love; to me is afterlife.

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