Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Letters To People I Love: Today Is Life




This was not the intended result for this post. But something terrible happened yesterday and I thought that this was a more deserving title for my outcome. 

Dedicated to the victims of Manchester. You are/were so much more than this! 


today is life 
today is sorrow
an elegy for today
ode to Manchester
for your hurt and pain 
while thinking of you
i know you to be more than just beings 
today is life 
today is sorrow 
an elegy for today 

i think of so much 
of the atrocities inflicted on us
by the cowardliness of humans with no respect for us 
i think of the lines blurred 
contaminated and destroyed 
is this all we will ever be? 
all that we capable of as humans? 

today is life 
today is sorrow 
an elegy for today 
i think of Manchester
of lives invaded 
innocence stole and the unkempt traitor 
some of you will never live to see your future 
some of you will never know that horror that we live in 
i perceive the second one to be a blessing   
today is life 
today is sorrow 
an elegy for today 

i think of normalcy 
which I no longer recognise 
security invaded 
this is sadness
like we've never known before
this is for the souls taken from us  
i long to immortalise you 
to keep you young and naive 

today is life 
today is sorrow 
an elegy for today 
it matters 
you matter 
we have been through worse 
nothing like this of course 
but we can overcome 
i urge you to cry
to scream and shout as loud as you can 
this will be our rebirth 
we will raise our young generation to be more than this  
the generation that was betrayed
we have done this once 
we can do it again 
i am sorry the world could not keep you safe
i am sorry that we could not keep you safe 
today is life 
today is sorrow 
an elegy for today 
ode to Manchester

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