The Last Split Second - My Epitaph

by Larry Chamberlin   Feb 19, 2008


All these memories,
so important all my life,
now shrink in the face of the end.

Nuances of urgency
lose their spiked edges;
others must now carry those flags.

Leisured fares on lake-shore banks
no longer have sugar or salt
and gentle maids will walk along without me.

Mysteries remain unsolved;
questions ever echo:
does this lead to answers or dissolution?

My children, roam free!
though I may not know what will come,
life's miracles do exist and seize us from within.

Follow the life you crave
mind you not the fences;
just promise to lift us into the stars.

Here am I who loved living,
in the worst of times and the best.
If I love what's next half as much,
you see me laid content.

LMC 24 February 1999

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  • 13 years ago

    by nouriguess

    Now, this is indeed amazing! well-flowed....well-punctuated well-expressed everything just sounded well-done! I congratulate you for such a piece. :)
    I really can't pick a favorite stanza here, since all of the poem was amazing and valuable but well I found this part really interesting:

    Leisured fares on lake-shore banks
    No longer have sugar or salt
    And gentle maids will walk along without me.

    ^^^^^

    This stanza really had me wondering, Sir, for minutes, I found it so wonderful to describe such feelings in this way....:)

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