Silenced Souls

About: I am mostly a pessimist, and I like to think of the worst situations for everything,
even before it happens. This was such a poem. I wrote it a week before he died,
I just knew his time had come. Thanks for all the memories, bitter or sweet.

when souls are put to silence
shoulders become heavier
carrying both responsibilities
and feelings, at once

when souls are put to silence
we revolt against death
but alas, who is so powerful
to kill death itself

when souls are put to silence
the memories cleanse themselves
the bad ones to be forgotten
the good ones to stay

when souls are put to silence
nature itself embraces it
for it never fails to take back
what it had once made

when souls are put to silence
they finally find peace
from this cruel, unkind world
to somewhere else, unknown

when souls are put to silence
oh we can only pray
shall they still live along in our hearts
and us, forever, in dismay

bee.
29th August, 2024