When Death Comes At Last
A Collaborative Project by Neptune and Nergal
I'm fading
My eyelids sink into the waters of the deep
Entombing my awareness of your world
Breath searches for blood and cannot find it
The oxygen seeps through my pores and absconds with my life
Like two lovers eloping at a foreign sanctuary
Beyond the horizon where I cannot follow
My voice floats up within the silence of a bubble
Till it bursts into Nirvana far above the limits of my consciousness
I reach for my heart
But that too flows away like milky coral sand
Elijah! Elijah! Why is this happening?
The gate of Bethel has been left ajar
The Devil has stolen my soul!
A cock crows
Though its sound is muted I can sense his declaration
And the shadow of a boat whose name I no longer know
Departs upon a distant wave
Taking with it the light
Now all that's left
Is darkness
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WOW!!.....if there were three people/writers contributing here then I think this is amazing....because it's SO hard to co-write in the first place.....but with three writers together......this ROCKS!!......well done dear poets!!......ALL STARS!!.....
Favorite line : "My voice floats up within the silence of a bubble..."
Bravo AL & company!!........T xo : )
My dear Poet Brother... thank you ?
Lol, No other authors involved only me.
It was a referring to the collaborative project involved in stealing the soul. ?
Shalom
I had to pin this! This is just brilliantly written. I love how you wrote in the notes a collaborative project by neptune and nergal because, if I am not mistaken, Neptune is God of the sea and Nergal a Babylonia God of death and war who marries the Queen of the Underworld. And this whole poem on death and despair bringing in so many beliefs. I absolutely love this poem. Brilliant. Just brilliant x
Yes. Many thanks. I enjoyed the process of embodying those sensations deep in my imagination before exhaling them as text on a page.