The candle burns
Giving light
Giving warmth
By fulfilling its function
It destroys itself
By destroying itself
It serves others
The candle burns
Sacrificing itself
For us
This poem is from the book, ‘A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken’.
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I wonder
If my role here
Is to sacrifice myself
For others
No one
Gets out alive
So why not give
What I have?
Perhaps
In doing so
I’d find
My purpose
This poem is from the book, ‘A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken’.
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here’s to the capitalistic desire
to sacrifice our lives
in order to have the
most fancy coffin
just to flex on
our friends
that we didn’t have time for
and to afford a headstone
chiselled with a quote
espousing the value
of hard work
and dedication
to something beyond ourselves
that no one will read
This poem is from the book, ‘A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken’.
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I wonder if
On the day I finally
‘Make it’
I will regret
The sacrifices
It took
To get there
This poem is from the book, ‘A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken’.
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