I follow a writing blog with exercises on increasing your writing ability. It offers challenges and writing prompts, and although I never participate by linking up my writing this assignment caught my attention. A few months ago the assignment was to write your epitaph. I had to look that up! Crazy, I guess, but I did not know what an epitaph was. After looking it up, this is what I came up with, but really how morbid, right? And since today is my birthday, shhh don't tell anyone that I am now 43, it felt fitting to share today. Cuz, yeah, I'm old. ;)
Etched in his heart
Memories
A chasm...A canyon
Because the loving was so deep
Darkness plagues his soul
He wrestles with the night
and my name...
an echo on the wind
~Lisa~
~Lisa~
But really, you could just play this song at my funeral, and I'll be smiling from heaven.
Happy Happy Birthday! That epitaph really is quite beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! I love that song! Hope you have a great day!!
ReplyDeleteI think your poem is pretty.
ReplyDeleteI don't like funerals. I don't want an epitaph. What in a few words could sum up the complicatedness that is a human being and his/her life? Sadly, it also seems that the significance of our lives leaves after our dying. Even the most powerful on Earth are but a brief note in a history book. It's such a dramatic juxtaposition: the helpfulness of life and the uselessness of death. It's something I ponder from time to time, since both the living and the dying are realities for us, one which we live in and one which is inevitable.
And Happy Birthday!
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