Valar Morghulis

"Valar Morghulis -all men must die." For me, this is a comfort. I do not care to endure eternally. Not at all. Though, I don't know that I'd feel the same as I was seeing my own reflection in those eyes...perhaps not.

Beautifully written (as I have come to expect from you)

That sounds rather presumptuous of me! Haha, I expect nothing, simply find greatness always in your poetry.

Thank you so much, Shannon.  I appreciate your thoughts.  I believe those words can provide comfort only because of how twisted the world is.  With all the pain and suffering, who would want immortality?  If this world was the Paradise envisioned, perhaps the viewpoint would change...

Shannon, it is not presumption -- it is expectation.

In recent time no poem can easily match this poem's easy and swift hit. This is a killer. It is profound and it explores the truth of life.

Irony etc.

Thank you, Kushal.

The mythological turned very dark and very powerful.

A stunning, timeless lament.  This would work well as a song. 

Thank you for posting to The Surreal Circus.  You are now featured.

Thank you, Ann.

Darkly true, so very true, and though I'd not want to see myself in those eyes, I also know none of us live forever. We all have different timelines, it seems and you're so right about the young, the old and the in-between...

One of your best, Bard, (again).

Marilyn

The truth is sometimes cold, but we must face it all the same.  Thank you, Marilyn

When Thanatos beckons

all must go

He guards the gate to Hel's halls.

I know that you have written many things my friend.  All good and some quite fantastic.  However, for me this is your coup de grace and it transcends all others.  This one is my favorite. 

All men must die but for a fortunate few, their words get to live on.  Welcome to the fortunate few.

I appreciate the compliment, Robert.

This dark expression is one of your best!

Devastatingly dark and unbelievably and beautifully written.  Your are now featured at READING BOOKS ONLINE!

I'm honored.

While this is beautifully written, I find it filled with pain that only a person who has been near death could describe. Well done~chilling. Thank you.

You are perceptive.  Thanks.

great poem you wrote.

I would imagine many of us will not wish to see our reflection in the end. You've a wondrous way with words Bard Constantine.

It's one thing to know it's coming.  It's another thing to see it coming.  Thank you.

Sometimes it is not much fun to be prophetic. ~embrace~

Superb, sublime and haunting.

It shouldn't be a surprise, well penned!

Thanks to everyone, for your comments

I commend you on this masterpiece.  I agree with Robert , this is my favorite of all yours I have read.  You must see if you can get it published.

"Valar Morghulis" is a phrase from George R R Martin's outstanding Song of Fire and Ice novels.  That would probably create a conflict were I ever to seek to publish this.  I'm not familiar with the red tape, but that's my guess.  I appreciate the compliment.

I kept hearing Jim crooning The End throughout the read~there is fear but there is also allure~

Fear and fascination intertwined...

where the girl crawls around the edges of the vacant eyes~lured like a moth to an open flame~but sometimes the girl has a brain and pulls her wings back just a breath before the dark's kiss~and sometimes the girl is darker than the dark itself~what does the Valahr Morghulis do when confronted with something that has no fear~something that falls through with delight into the mouth of the end~

~at the borders of sanity and madness, dreamscapes and

nightmares;

I wait for you, patiently, upon a divan of palm branches and

ebony feathers, shorn from the

broken wings which have been

ripped from my spine...