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Driven through many a nation, out over many an ocean,
I am now here for these last rites of passing,
To offer you, dead brother, the last gifts of the living,
To speak in vain at your unspeaking ash
Since bitter fortune barred me, stole you to a shadow,
Poor brother taken, cruelly taken, from me.
But now to celebrate grief in custom of our fathers
I bring small foods to you who starve below,
Small gifts damp with a brother's tears. Take them and this
Into eternity: hail and farewell.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)And he wrote it amazingly. Sigh.
hack89
(39,171 posts)I looked him up and read some of his poems - amazing stuff.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)A good friend of mine's brother is dying, which made me think of this. Obviously, this is more on the "heartbreaking" side of things.
hack89
(39,171 posts)that's what immediately struck me - how simple and direct he was. Very powerful.
Catullus, who doesn't mince words about fucking people in the ass.