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Array ( [sid] => 111630 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Is This All that Love Can Do? [time] => 2005-12-17 01:52:28 [hometext] => This, of course, is just about death. I got the idea for this when I visited a local graveyard and came across this particular headstone. From graveyards, I've found enough poetical motivation to last a lifetime, trust me...this is only the beginning. [bodytext] =>

Is this all that love can do--
buy some dirt and stone?
Perhaps a lovely bouquet, too...
now these are all you own.
Death has stolen everything
and left you in the past;
you've been expecting it for years--
it always comes so fast.
But now you have a bouquet here
placed just above your head...
though what good does a flower do
when given to the dead?
Is this the fate we're all made for,
to live and die in vain?
Is there truly nothing more
beyond this earthly plane?
So is this all that love can do--
buy some dirt and stone?
Is this all that God can do--
let us die alone?
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Is This All that Love Can Do?

Contributed by Freak-of-the-Week on Saturday, 17th December 2005 @ 01:52:28 AM in AEST
Topic: DarkPoetry

Is this all that love can do--
buy some dirt and stone?
Perhaps a lovely bouquet, too...
now these are all you own.
Death has stolen everything
and left you in the past;
you've been expecting it for years--
it always comes so fast.
But now you have a bouquet here
placed just above your head...
though what good does a flower do
when given to the dead?
Is this the fate we're all made for,
to live and die in vain?
Is there truly nothing more
beyond this earthly plane?
So is this all that love can do--
buy some dirt and stone?
Is this all that God can do--
let us die alone?

Copyright © Freak-of-the-Week ... [ 2005-12-17 01:52:28]
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Re: Is This All that Love Can Do? (User Rating: 1 )
by WaterFountainOfTears on Saturday, 17th December 2005 @ 02:00:16 AM AEST
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omg, so depressing
such nice flow and rhyme scheme as well

great job here ... nice pick on that gravestone

heres to hopes we don't die alone

Re: Is This All that Love Can Do? (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Saturday, 17th December 2005 @ 02:05:01 PM AEST
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Heh wow, when I saw the pic it scared me, I read the poem, I really don't know what to say, good poem, I guess, sorry, i'm just kind of shocked.

Re: Is This All that Love Can Do? (User Rating: 1 )
by darkangeleyes57 on Tuesday, 20th December 2005 @ 11:19:57 AM AEST
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This was very powerful especially the last two lines... Me i don't believe in god but then again i don't believe in much anyways.. I liked this poem it was deep and all together well written...

take care
christina
** heavy metal kicks ass **

Re: Is This All that Love Can Do? (User Rating: 1 )
by Butterflygirl40 on Thursday, 29th December 2005 @ 09:13:38 PM AEST
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so sad but it was a good write

Re: Is This All that Love Can Do? (User Rating: 1 )
by russ-dawg on Tuesday, 3rd January 2006 @ 03:34:23 PM AEST
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umm....*gulp* good poem just not sumething ya want to read when your depressed!

Re: Is This All that Love Can Do? (User Rating: 1 )
by Kamal on Friday, 6th January 2006 @ 03:57:54 PM AEST
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Yes because the process of life is death...
Man, Woman, Child then death awaits all of us ... Its a blessing to have life without famine or disease...
I feel your emotions about life and death...
Death is love love is death life brings joy then we are laid to rest...
Who knows where the afterlife proceeds but remember sex brings life love then death....

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