Sleeping Tomb

[Gestalt222]

I'm already dead,
I'm just trying to rise now.
The wind surrounds me
and howls for my surrender.
I succumbed countless moons ago,
The world too bleak, my soul too meek.

Landless peasants lived a life
I couldn't live
Their souls intact, their fight not crushed.
I mourn the lifeless body,
staggered across the seaside cliffs.
Laid upon the jagged rocks
like a sleeping tomb.

-But I still breathe.
the wind,
it swirls and
it howls
for my surrender.
Every move I make-
makes me colder,
but I still breathe.

Hello Gestalt, half of verse 3 is almost a mirror image of verse 1, exept in verse 3 you are alive, and I cannot (for the life of me) see how you got to that state when in verse 1 you are "dead".

The state of death is symbolic of course, its alluding to being dead while alive, whether it be spiritually, emotionally, psychologically or all of the above.

You repeat " but still I breathe" twice in V3 which jars me, and I cannot connect the dots as to why the narrator "still breathes".

The narrator still breathes because they still have an ounce of fight left, he/she may have succumbed to life's cruelties, but there is still a glimmer of hope, as he/she lays "lifeless". I repeat the wind in the third versus because it is ever present, threatening the protagonist's will to continue on.
what does "the wind surrounds me and howls for my surrender" mean?

The wind can be many things, but mostly someone's inner demons and doubts, etc.
How can a "lifeless body", be "staggered" across the seaside cliffs?.

Imagine a lifeless body upon jagged rocks, it wouldn't be neatly laid out due to the topography.

I always think of a "tomb" as being "enclosed".

The use of tomb here is being used as a symbol more so than a structure.
The way this section is worded likens the "lifeless body" to the "sleeping tomb".

Thank you for posting.
JG

Thanks for taking the time to read!