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oh, that explains everything...sorry I missed the point
don't get me started, but this is so sad, and it tears me to pieces, because my very own child well (19 year old son) took his life, different but I know the pain. sigh.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 3:41 PM
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Behind the poem...
It's nice to let people read my poetry and develop their own interpretations of what it means to them, but I will go ahead and reveal the author's vision... It is a parent singing his or her dying child to sleep for the last time. I picture a young cancer patient cradled in her mother's arms, unwitting of her impending fate, but comforted by the soothing words of the one in whom she places all of her trust. This idea reveals just how haunting, and yet comforting, can be the children's bedtime prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the LORD my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the LORD my soul to take."
posted by
Kevin_Lauer
on September 6, 2006 at 3:16 PM
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IT IS THE MEANING OF THE LIFE AND THE DEATH WHEN WE DIE SOME ONE SOME WHERE WILL BE BORN IT IS WISDOM YOU WROTE IN SONG I HAVE TO READ IT AGAIN IT IS VERY INTERSTING FULL WITH DEEP THOUGHTS AND TRUE
najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on September 6, 2006 at 3:04 PM
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oh yeah, how could i miss it? but children don't suffer from depression in
that way, do they?
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 2:58 PM
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To me this seems to be about soothing a frightened child to sleep but I could be off-track of course.
posted by
mneme
on September 6, 2006 at 2:57 PM
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depression may not feel like dying inside but it is not the same as the
fear of death, more like a death wish, it is different. Your words speak true, but I still don't quite get it, and I do want to understand what I read. I know it is about hope, it is the death part that I don't get.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 2:52 PM
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don't know if I fully understand it.
is it dying to self, fear of death, literally or figuratively speaking or both? Where does all this come from, sorry I am just curious.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 2:46 PM
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is this strictly about depression or death?
or someone dying? sorry if I sound dim.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 2:43 PM
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well, it is nice to read something really good for a change no offence to
all others.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 2:42 PM
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Thank you!
That is such high praise. I am truely honored.
posted by
Kevin_Lauer
on September 6, 2006 at 2:38 PM
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ok you are a pro, and this is free advertising you know.
what can I say? this is great and compared to the rest of us, your stuff rises way above all that has been written here on this blog.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 6, 2006 at 2:32 PM
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UNIQUE
posted by
NAJWA
on September 6, 2006 at 2:31 PM
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