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Cadence - 2. Chapter 2

What in this world is more our own

Than the moment we die?

For what may we truly call ours

If not that last breath’s sigh.

 

From instant unto instant we

For stranger or a friend

Will find a missing lamb or coin,

A mystery to end;

 

One lost from common currency

Hardly betters our lives,

While sheep or friends, gone and wayward,

Care not if our soul thrives.

 

Still other eyes and ears search out

Those instants most serene

Of quiet contemplation when

No pressures may be seen

 

And we may turn our gaze inward

To see if fear is there

As we approach that final breath

In throes of calm despair.

 

So would I clasp your hand in mine

When moments grow too few

For confidences, jests or songs

Shared when our world was new.



This was a poem we wrote together.
Copyright © 2023 Parker Owens, AC Benus; All Rights Reserved.
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raven1

This is a beautiful, pensive poem contemplating the personal experience of death. Well done, Parker!

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Parker Owens
5 hours ago, raven1 said:

This is a beautiful, pensive poem contemplating the personal experience of death. Well done, Parker!

@AC Benus and I wrote alternating stanzas. I think our efforts complimented each other well. Thank you for reading and for your thoughts. 

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Backwoods Boy

Many emotional states flow from this collaboration, but the conclusion brings them together in the important one:

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So would I clasp your hand in mine

When moments grow too few

For confidences, jests or songs

Shared when our world was new.

 

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Parker Owens
1 hour ago, Backwoods Boy said:

Many emotional states flow from this collaboration, but the conclusion brings them together in the important one:

 

Thank you for reading, and sharing your reactions. I really enjoyed this collaboration; it seemed as if @AC Benus read my mind on several occasions as we traded stanzas. 

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AC Benus
2 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

Thank you for reading, and sharing your reactions. I really enjoyed this collaboration; it seemed as if @AC Benus read my mind on several occasions as we traded stanzas. 

It was pure, back and forth inspiration :)

Thank you, Parker

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Parker Owens
5 hours ago, centexhairysub said:

Just really beautiful and blended so well.

As @AC Benus said, it was pure back and forth inspiration, I’m glad you think it turned out well. 

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Bill W

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A beautiful and introspective look at life and its inevitable path toward the end of life - something I have thought about quite often.  

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Parker Owens
10 minutes ago, Bill W said:

A beautiful and introspective look at life and its inevitable path toward the end of life - something I have thought about quite often.  

You’re really kind to offer your thoughts on these. It seems we march not upward but inward as our time draws near. Thanks again for reading. 

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