At the age of nine
They made me king
Grand high, something something
I forget the exact title
Virgins were sacrificed
I remember that much
And volcanoes exploded
And the sky rained fire
And the rivers were swollen
With honey and milk
And I thought...
Wow
Just wow, you know?
I was nine
Then, at the age of eighteen
I was dead
That was a life
Eighteen years
It must seem like nothing now
But back then
You could do a lot of living
In eighteen years
It occasionally makes me wonder
What I could have done with more
Eight, eighty, eight hundred more years
And what would I be?
In my dreams, when I dream
Which I do
I don't imagine more of what I already had
I imagine less
Much less
A farm, near the river
A wife with a kind smile
Maybe one of the two daughters I lost
Alive and happy
Nobody looking at me like a king
Or a god
No expectations
No disappointment
No promises that in the next life
Everything will make sense
In my dream, there is no next life
Just a life on Earth
That must be lived
In each separate, passing moment
And when the end comes
It will be the End
And I shall welcome it
Like a friend I've been waiting to meet
All my life
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