If I Awake to Flames After I Die
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(01-30-2014, 01:41 AM)alatos Wrote:  I could especially use help with punctuation!

If I awake to flames after I die
to make eternal payment for my sin,
I will not raise my voice to question why
remembering the man that I had been.
But cast into oblivion, if He, good place for a colon, I think.
the Perfect Judge, should look my way with grace
and offer lovingly to pardon me
if only I would run again life’s race felt kinda chunky when reading. I didn't like the stress on the "a"
more faithfully, without conceited pride,
the greed-filled lies, the lust, this time to live:
my passions and my past to set aside…
I know one thing alone I'd never give.
Those moments spent with you I would not sell
to save my soul eternity in hell.
I like the how the poem starts with "eternal payment" and then ends with a refusal to sell. The bargaining makes it seem very typical of a religious monologue inside one's head. I found L12 particularly powerful because it is reaching a limit within your soul-- the last thing that you could not possibly budge on!
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If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by alatos - 01-30-2014, 01:41 AM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by Blake - 01-30-2014, 02:35 AM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by gslegrá - 01-31-2014, 10:48 PM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by Brian - 07-20-2014, 01:22 PM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by KROD - 07-21-2014, 09:16 AM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by billy - 07-23-2014, 06:31 PM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by SomeRandom - 08-04-2014, 02:23 PM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by bwasroy - 08-16-2014, 07:30 AM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by ellajam - 09-09-2014, 11:11 AM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by Pyxx - 09-12-2014, 12:59 PM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by Sa - 01-19-2015, 07:05 AM
RE: If I Awake to Flames After I Die - by bena - 01-24-2015, 09:20 PM



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