PWoF 2016 - Topic 04 - Sept. 25

[dukealien]

Fatality at Play


It’s with us all today
not just an oarsman
back from rowing, but
young lads jumping surf
girls playing with rag dolls
unknowing but all full
with instinct this bright dawn
has night.  So play and laugh
always saluting its soft fall.

L2-3 inspired by the justly famous

Death is before me today:
Like the recovery of a sick man,
Like going forth into a
 garden after sickness.

Death is before me today:
Like the odor of myrrh,
Like sitting under a sail
 in a good wind.

Death is before me today:
Like the course of a stream,
Like the return of a man
 from the war-galley to
 his house.

Death is before me today:
Like the home that a man longs to see,
After years spent as a captive.