Post by kiakblackthorne on Jan 12, 2004 18:53:59 GMT -5
Fame's Call and Cost
Still nights remember thy name.
Whisper softly,
Ever-dieing fame.
Life lived in constant peril.
No choice of how.
No choice of when.
Fortuna called and forced
my beckoning anwser.
To live in shadow or live forever?
Unattainable fame
from no surrender.
Once more alone.
Is it in wonder,
as I pass on to glory
or to retribution
Whispers surround and follow into
my ever restless slumber.
I wrote this a few years ago for a poetry contest that The Eternal Trinity was having. I didn't even get a "good job." But I loved the poem and it has become my ... theme so you can say. Back when I had a choice to step up to control I chose to step back into the shadows. I kept thinking of Achilles in the underworld when Ulysses went to meet the heros that had fought and died in the Trojan war of Terran history. When asked if he could do it over again what he would have chose he said, " I would rather have lived a long life of quite simplicity then a short life of fame and glory." Ulysses never forgave himself for forcing him away from his family only to meet his death on the battle feild. I guess I kept thinking that is what would happen...
( Poem is curtesy of ME! Caroline Eikenberry. Please don't borrow this without permission. See other works by me at my webby. www.bathroomofdarkness.tk )
Still nights remember thy name.
Whisper softly,
Ever-dieing fame.
Life lived in constant peril.
No choice of how.
No choice of when.
Fortuna called and forced
my beckoning anwser.
To live in shadow or live forever?
Unattainable fame
from no surrender.
Once more alone.
Is it in wonder,
as I pass on to glory
or to retribution
Whispers surround and follow into
my ever restless slumber.
I wrote this a few years ago for a poetry contest that The Eternal Trinity was having. I didn't even get a "good job." But I loved the poem and it has become my ... theme so you can say. Back when I had a choice to step up to control I chose to step back into the shadows. I kept thinking of Achilles in the underworld when Ulysses went to meet the heros that had fought and died in the Trojan war of Terran history. When asked if he could do it over again what he would have chose he said, " I would rather have lived a long life of quite simplicity then a short life of fame and glory." Ulysses never forgave himself for forcing him away from his family only to meet his death on the battle feild. I guess I kept thinking that is what would happen...
( Poem is curtesy of ME! Caroline Eikenberry. Please don't borrow this without permission. See other works by me at my webby. www.bathroomofdarkness.tk )
