Poetry

Living Among The Dead

On the altar of life sits 13 candles

The lights of souls

With 12 other bodies

In death I lay in the charnel ground

The wind howls and moans

One candle remains

A rotting corpse for all to see

It is mine

I wish to cling to life

To the life of this body

The body my soul for now calls home

Volcanic rock surrounds me

A spider forms a web over my body

It is my burial shroud

Encased in white, black and red webbing

A rotting corpse for all to see

No life

No heartbeat

The breath has left the body

My soul clings to the body

I don’t want to abandon life

I want to live and breathe again

A rotting corpse for all to see

My two spirit guides call my name

They beg me to leave the flesh behind

I love the rotting flesh

Its smell comforts me

It is the only home my soul knows

Still my spirit guides call me

Shiva come home

Leave the world of rotting flesh

Vultures of fear, dispear and shame tear into my body

They strip the flesh to the bones

Shiva come home

They break the bones

Feast upon the marrow

Shiva come home

Still my soul clings to the broken body

Shiva come home

Embrace this death

I do

Flames consume my remains

Now spirit I enter the realm of tranquility

The light of unconditional love surrounds me

The shadow world of flesh exists no more

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