Echoes of Tomorrow

[Dyrwen]

A poem.. written about my analyzation of all, and my realization of none.

"pretty much, i've been analyzing my actions and those of others since i was very young. always evaluating the future and the actions of the present. don't feel dumb, i just complicate life.."
-taken from a yahoo convo i had.

Echoes of Tomorrow

Voids and spaces, lost human races;
unswept desires of a world of liars.
Seeking out pleasure of no normal verse,
finding myself apparently cursed.
A delightful thought, to know it's impossible;
to never have my safety in human normality.

Kept silently in my head, without a way out;
another losing battle, finding a new life route.
Crawling it's way through the slimes of repression,
finding holes in my psyche of loving obsessions.
Dying yells as it remains lost in my heart,
trapped far from the lights, of it's life giving part.

Finding the bullet, as it heads towards me,
knowing full well of it's path into me.
For I have planned it, and analyzed it thoroughly,
knowing full well, just how it will hit me.
What impact it makes, on my life and body,
how it will destroy me, and release this pain far from me.

A shell echoes, as it hits the ground now,
bellowing out a blast through my body,
as it destroys my mind now.
The blood stops, and clots in my neck,
as the voices try to run out, my heart cries for help.
Seeking it's release, it's pain far from gone,
but lost in my corpse, forever unseen irony.

Death becomes me, the end of it all,
a final battle, planned out to obscurity in a fall.

[Ickmeister]

The poem itself is good and you are talented. But death becomes no one.
No one has the right to take a human life, not even your own.

[Dyrwen]

To you maybe. All a matter of opinion.

[Ickmeister]

Knowledge and belief. 8) And did you ever stop and think that it is cowardly and separate from human nature?

[Dyrwen]

No. Infact I find it quite intelligent, as I tend to realize more of human nature than most, I just don't find a need to experience all of it. There are plenty of other people happy to do what they want. I'll do what I need, rather than waste time on that which helps me not. ;)

[den]

Oh. I disagree with your opinions about the idea of taking ones own life. I also believe in assisted suicide for terminally ill people, and hopefully North America will catch up with some European countries on this soon. :evil:

Terry Schiavo is an ultimate horror story in this most politicalspiritual decisive topic. I'm so happy I have a living will, DNR.

Being `cowardly' about wanting to die is only one possibility. That is not the beginning or the end in wanting to die. Methinks you've never endured clinical depression. :(


No one has the right to take a human life, not even your own.

[heretic]

I liked the poem very much.Taking your life r the right abt it etc. is a different matter.But i think the poem is about the thought of doing and I think the poem gives you a taste of it.I dont think there anything wrong in that.

[AbdoRinbo]

I heard of a short story once where a POW is sentenced to be executed by a firing squad. While waiting, he begins writing. He spends every waking moment writing this incredibly brilliant play, but before he finishes it he is taken from his cell. He begins praying for just one more day to complete his work, but he is forced up against a wall and a detachment of soldiers begin aiming their rifles at him. The shots are fired and the bullets fly towards his forehead, but they stop in midair. They just float right in front of his face. Anyway, a friend of mine was telling me about it. I guess they stayed exactly like that until he had finished the play in his mind, and then they hit home.

It has nothing to with suicide; more of a realization of, or a confrontation with death. I still can't figure out what it's called or who wrote it though. It was all hearsay.

[Dyrwen]

Hearsay? Really? Shocking.

[Sindhu]

Oh. I disagree with your opinions about the idea of taking ones own life. I also believe in assisted suicide for terminally ill people, and hopefully North America will catch up with some European countries on this soon. :evil:

Terry Schiavo is an ultimate horror story in this most politicalspiritual decisive topic. I'm so happy I have a living will, DNR.

Being `cowardly' about wanting to die is only one possibility. That is not the beginning or the end in wanting to die. Methinks you've never endured clinical depression. :(


No one has the right to take a human life, not even your own.
I agree with Den's idea here. It's cruel and inhumane in my opinion to make terminally ill and brain dead people go on existing to salavge our conscience. And I've personally seen two people very close to me BEGGING to beallowed to die so that they didn't have to suffer the agonies of pain that noone could do anything about and had to stand by furious at my impotence to help them.
And about suicide- sometimes it takes the greatest courage to do that - there are situations when to go on living is the cowards way out. I don't think anyone can make this choice for another person.
Back on topic, Drwen, I found your poem very inspiring - I'm actually writing something now that kind of takes off from yours, so I'd like to say thanks. I don't know if I'll ever be satisfied enough with it to post it here, but I had kind of run out of inspiration for a long time and your poem just clicked my mind into action. Thanks a lot.

[Dyrwen]

Back on topic, Drwen, I found your poem very inspiring - I'm actually writing something now that kind of takes off from yours, so I'd like to say thanks. I don't know if I'll ever be satisfied enough with it to post it here, but I had kind of run out of inspiration for a long time and your poem just clicked my mind into action. Thanks a lot.
Glad to help out. I'm inspired by the experiences and actions of those around me, though I rarely have the opportunity to think of a chance to thank them for it. Suppose life imitates art and art imitates life, but creativity, is a blending of supreme coordination.

Best of luck in finding something to post here as well..heh.

[Sindhu]

I've posted that poem, I said you "Inspired" Drywen, actually, I didn't "Think" much after all- it just sortof crystallised a few minutes ago. Let me know what you think,please!

[Triskele]

The poem itself is good and you are talented. But death becomes no one.
No one has the right to take a human life, not even your own.

by this definition all existentialists, some being quite smart, are completely wrong, i think you would have a very different opinion if you ever hit "the abyss", the point at which the educated mind realizes the pointlessness of life, and so recedes into a deeply introspective and depressive state. sometimes suicide seems logical, even if it isn't... so lets not judge unless you have been there.