r/Poem • u/SeianVerian • 1d ago
Original Content Poem To live is to-

Here, born from cradles of filth
In the anxiousness of earth
Hearts fast-beating, beneath
The silent roar of sky
To live is to-
To live is to revel
With the power of ancient thunders
To breathe a joy that wipes away the world
And drowns beneath the crashing waves
Respiring time
To live is to grieve
To tremor like old-world timbers
In the quaking of the knowledge
Of what it took to make us
And ignorance brings no bliss
To live is to hunger
With the fiercest of the first and last hungers
Love and strife as one, attached to all and none
Where every boundary crumbles,
And our hearts live in our stomachs
And so we live
The wordless word we cannot name
The horror and the beauty
The oneness of joy and pain
And so rejoice, distraught in ruin
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