Sunday, August 25, 2013

BROTHER



DAVID PAUL
Touch me no more. I am empty,
gone away from every foolish thing
I once adored.
The love I knew was crushed
under the foot of them who
now say they loved me best
but easily walked over
the plot of earth
I was not yet in.

There is no such as joy or compassion
left in a world busy building itself anew
using carbons, nitrates and, sulfur as its tools.
I want no more a part of it.
Leave me be for I am empty
of anything but sorrow for a house
that once built could not maintain itself
chose to immediately go to rot.

My work is done I have nothing left to offer.
Do not ring my bell,
Touch me no more I am empty memory
my sorrow has finally released me from hell.

© M Durfee
8/25/13
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  1. Brian MillerAugust 25, 2013 at 8:27 AM

    i like that sorrow has released you...the house built unable to maintain itself....that is the line that struck me...quite evocative piece mark...your emotions come through fierce...

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:17 AM

      There is only one release from sorrow Brian. The house=family. Yes I miss my brother still.

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  2. CinnamonAugust 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM

    Yes it is a foolish world we live in..

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:18 AM

      Cinnamon I think foolish is too kind of a word to be honest.

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  3. Rosaria WilliamsAugust 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM

    That sorrow has released you says it all. Is this a eulogy piece for your brother?

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:19 AM

      Rosaria I tried to make, as close as I could his voice the narrative voice in this.

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  4. TALONAugust 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM

    Okay, okay...you've completely broken my heart with this one, Mark. Having not long lost my own brother, Paul, this struck a chord. I thought I'd wept all the tears I could with all the loss in the last two years, but seems the well runs deep.

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:22 AM

      Talon in some people the oceans are very deep, in others well they only have puddles or maybe depending on the circumstances we all have both. But I share your sorrow with you and hope you know you never need to swin either ocean or puddle alone.

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  5. Charles GramlichAugust 25, 2013 at 12:25 PM

    Powerful evocation of sorrow.

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:22 AM

      Charles i think near the end that was David strongest feeling or emotion.

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  6. Alice AudreyAugust 25, 2013 at 1:53 PM

    Which David Paul?

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  7. CloudiaAugust 25, 2013 at 2:11 PM

    You weave your own epitaph day by day.
    But we cannot look away...


    Aloha

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:26 AM

      Cloudia I know no other way. At this pint, right now, I am trying to speak what I know he wanted to be heard.

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  8. goatmanAugust 25, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    I guess he didn't, or couldn't say it himself. Sometimes we must, I guess.

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  9. GraceAugust 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM

    Deep sorrowful verses ~ Hope that emptiness will be filled, slowly, day by day ~ Peace ~

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:29 AM

      Grace although Davey's passing has bothered me on many different levels and from many different directions. I know I will replace my own sorrow with memory that is not hollow eventually. The dark will fade to light. Thank you.

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  10. kjAugust 25, 2013 at 5:33 PM

    My read is not just sorrow, the the worse: betrayal.

    I have many faults but I do hope betrayal will never be among them.

    I love this line :
    "I am empty memory"

    How can that be? And yet you make it so.

    Much love mark.
    Love lives on
    kj

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:33 AM

      Last bit first kj--I know.

      Yes betrayal gives one power to endure great sadness and pain, even the pain of choosing untreated cancer over life. In the end though he won, because his will ordered immediate cremation so no one he wanted to be loved by will ever know what cancer killed him other than the one he expressed in an undated note regarding lack of family unity.

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  11. G-ManAugust 26, 2013 at 7:08 PM

    Heavy-Duty....

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  12. SydAugust 26, 2013 at 10:08 PM

    The sorrow for losing people and the world that we knew weighs heavy, man. Hoping that you are doing okay and at peace.

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:35 AM

      Thank you Syd. To quote someone or another one day at a time or better yet heartbeat by heartbeat.

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  13. jodiAugust 26, 2013 at 10:47 PM

    Mark, your words have such power and come from such a strong, wise place. xo

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    1. the walking manAugust 27, 2013 at 6:36 AM

      Thank you Jodi---any idea which direction that place is for i feel neither strong nor wise.

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  14. sageAugust 29, 2013 at 5:56 PM

    Sad, yet profound and prophetic.

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So Walking Man I was thinking...

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