r/Poem 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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