
| Walking
Author: Landcaster A reflective, abstract sort of poem of melancholy musings on a walk. You may be able to relate to the distance or unsureness it expresses. I like it, but I just wrote it last night after hanging out with some friends, so I still may edit it.
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Poetry - Words: 308 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 07-23-08 - Status: Complete - id: 2549130
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"Walking"
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I am walking,
Though I know not where
My destination rests in waiting,
Nor from what place I am hailing;
I know not whether I will return
Or stay.
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I am walking,
Alone against an empty night,
Endless as the empty sky
I see all around, in many shades of black,
All the same.
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I am walking,
And all I hear are echoes,
Calling, calling, and fading,
Unable to resound against the night
Because everything is too distant
To hear.
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And I think of many things,
Of tomorrows or yesterdays,
Or what was, or is, or could have been;
And I think how trite this thinking seems
Against the world
Of melancholy people.
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No one transcends the bracing night,
And all is distance absolute,
And I puzzle how long I wish to stay,
Or if I may
Ever leave.
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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death..." I muse,
And wonder where I stand:
Yester-night or tomorrow morning.
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I am walking somewhere, sometime,
And the mist is rising as I lose myself
In the cryptic, lonely folds of this distance absolute;
I think, and muse, and wonder too,
Where am I, where are they, and where are you.
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That quote is from Shakespeare's Macbeth:
Macbeth:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5, 19-28
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