'Requiem For The People I Have Been'
Oh, but my aura has borne so many wounds! The intoxication of love, the acid of hate The rape of a soul, the absence of fate. I have climbed, desperate, ever higher on life's ladder To find something like Nirvana, to peace, Only to be shoved down to the rough earth again. The pain I have known, for this knowledge That I will be so many people, live so many lies, Bear my addictions, to love and to suicide, Until they become one and the same Ugliness to beauty, and pleasure to pain. You will find them all in me. How I miss the chains of faith! For they were warm, they were part of me! Now, I face cold reality, the facets of this Frozen jewel I would call life. And what is life but a stairway to heaven? And what is heaven but another life? It is life from which I would flee, that serrated truth, That jagged blade against my soul and my heart. And life would define me, give me a name and a home, Then take it away on a whim. And what is my name? Life, give me a dozen more! A name for each of the people I have been. Written December 15th, 2001 © on Dec 15 2001 11:14 AM PST 18 • 0 • 10
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"Oh, but my aura has borne so many wounds!..."