Purgatory Poem by Afrooz Jafarinoor
Purgatory
I miss all the dead of ours
Those who have gone, yet
The days passed cannot forget
Those who went and left us
In the void of their absence
And still agonize us
With their existence
With their solemn, silent presence
In all our dreams!
Someone should rewrite
Our whole thesaurus and correct
All our definitions!
Someone must know
What came over our words,
And might be able to translate
The obscure speech of the dead!
Someone must know
And laughs, I know,
At the certainty of our definitions
And the reversion of our assumptions!
Someone must be there,
But might be dead
And be safe from the fire
Of our ignorance
Writing a thesaurus for us,
Defining our death and life
And purgatory to us!
Some Galileo
Some Giordano,
There must be someone
To tell us, fearless
Of being burned:
Purgatory is right here, you dead!
I like your challenge for the dead and to bring them to life for who they were. We all can struggle with this at times. I remember friends and family no longer with us and would like to remember them for who they were and what they meant to me. Thankyou for the poem.
November is approaching and here, in Italy, Nov.2 is the the Day of the Dead. Therefore, your well penned poem is remembering a tradition, along with the very memories of the dead.. '' In the void of their absence but With their solemn, silent presence '', and... '' Defining our death and life / And purgatory to us! '', as you write. Thanks for sharing, dear Afrooz Blessings p.s.: Defininfg - a typo ;)
So interesting! I had never heard of that! Let me dedicate this to all great Italians who lived in our world and left it in the void of their absence! Thank you for the information and for pointing out the typo (now corrected) ! Long live
Verily, the memories of the dead are the great memoirs that linger in our minds and someone may be there which is not yet realized by us
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Great write, with questions left unanswered we dream of the dead they are part of our being as we struggle to find answers for what's in store for us, as the dead awaits us with their souls ready to embrace us all!