Forlorn
all alone like an epilogue to a revolution
though the old rain will be again new
a kiss able to light my grieved eyes
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 20 June 1668
Dave Bonta
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all alone like an epilogue to a revolution
though the old rain will be again new
a kiss able to light my grieved eyes
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 20 June 1668
The speaker feels left over. "Like an epilogue to a revolution" is a striking way to say it: the big, loud event is finished, and what remains is a quiet afterword that nobody much needs to read. That image suggests someone who once belonged to something larger and now sits alone in its aftermath.
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