Do we not all face eviction?

Question

Evicted

Son and daughter, I am gone.

My body no longer cared

to house my soul.

Tired, needing rest,

I was evicted,

lease expired.

It’s alright to be sad now,

but please be glad, too.

For now I can be many things.

Like…

the sunflower posing,

or willow dancing,

the water lapping,

or a cool breeze,

and the special glow

of a warm sunset.

So many things…

to remind you,

remind you of

our special times…

together.

Evicted? Scoff at that!

Freed from a shell,

a shell, eroded.

I soar now. Feel me,

feel me near,

always.

Answer 1

This is a freeing poem.  To the ones left behind.  To the ones who are leaving.  It is comforting and soothing.  I believe in your message.  Well done Neon.

Answer 2

i took care of hospice patients for a period of my life, and this poem brought them all back to my mind.  thank you for putting these thoughts into words. and for letting me call back some very special memories.

Answer 3

A wondrous testament to children. The poet has willed them freedom from fear of that which must happen to all living beings.

Answer 4

We live as ideas and thoughts and emotions in other people's minds, so are we then any less alive as long as we are remembered? A thought .....

Thank you for a lovely poem neonman.

I think I may keep this one with your permission, I may need to read it soon.

Answer 5

The wonder of wisdom, you are part of the wonder.

This is lovely, and comes to us that feel we have lived long

enough, as we out live what was. Bravo!

Answer 6

This would make a wonderful In Memorium poem for a final goodbye ceremony. It's a keeper.

Answer 7

I loved it. It makes you think. You should try to get some of your poetry published. This one is really good!!

Answer 8

This really hits home.

The grandfather clock the other day already had me thinking--now this one; my kids aren't even home and I need to hug 'em.

Answer 9

"Hi!",

Now you left me all teary eyed, Please write with less emotion! : (

This is the secound time someones got me crying while I type. lovely It's not even lunch time yet!

It was a well written and sad poem. So I hope this isn't your encore poem,

WELL DONE!

Cheers : )

Answer 10

This one really brought tears to my eyes....it is beautiful, but somewhat scary....thanks for sharing!

Answer 11

I Don't think I have ever commented on your words of wisdom before.

Perhaps I have been too humbled. This piece is beautiful,

what a lovely epitaph to leave ones loved ones.

Answer 12

Sorry I dislike poems, but we will all be evicted when the Earth is destryoed. WARNING.

Answer 13

A theme I detect??? We will be gone longer than here, so raise your glass to passing and wallow in the wonder while we are still tenants.

Answer 14

Great poem Neon. You have made me feel enough to sit and think for the most part of this day. While walking down the village, while sitting and leaning back on my chair, while my thoughts wander round uncontrollably, I shall have the essence of this poem working at the back of my mind...to be the sun flower posing or the dancing willow, and to feel a oneness with every aspect of it, I too will be desiring to have my wings open to the air.

Answer 15

"For now I can be many things.

Like…

the sunflower posing,

or willow dancing,

the water lapping,

or a cool breeze,

and the special glow

of a warm sunset"

This part reminds me of a final reading I had called "Simplicity" by Henry D. Thoreau, Walden.

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Here`s an excerpt from the reading.

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quick-sands and thousand and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion."

Henry D. Thoreau, Walden, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, p. 56

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aww yes, if only I could live this simplicity!

PS And I got a A+ on that final. hehe

Answer 16

"and I lay me down with a will"  Thank you, Neon!

Answer 17

Can I come with you?... seriously

Answer 18

[My poems make people cry also, but I think it's for a different reason.]

There is great sadness here, yet it offers great comfort also....if you believe in an afterlife. Then again you shall live on in the hearts of all who love you.