Eternal Recurrance

Caught in this circle for eternity.
It seems that we have been here once before.
I do not wish to read this anymore
And see the same old words repeatedly.
What if we were to try and jump out now,
Would the poet take this on the chin?
Is it possible we have reached the top?
If so, I wish that here we make a stop.
Alas, too late, we've gone back down again.
I'm getting dizzy, this I cannot allow,
To speak the same old words redundantly.
This poet, what an insufferable boor!
How many times is this? Who's keeping score?
No worse fate can befall one than to be

Long after I am dead and gone away

Long after I am dead and gone away,
Returned to this good earth from whence I came
--A fate that everyone will face someday
(Be rich or poor, we all end up the same);

Long after the last word has been discussed
And there are no more secrets to conceal;
Long after this book has turned into dust
And there is nothing more one can reveal;

Long after the last sentence has been spoken,
Long after the last story has been spun,
Long after the last promise has been broken,
Long after the last setting of the sun;

My poems in their vain immortality
Will continue to live on, long after me.

Would you be my imaginary friend

Would you be my imaginary friend
And agree to talk to me every day?
I have no one on whom I can depend;
All my other friends have run away.

I don't know why they're so afraid of me.
Do I seem so repulsive to your eyes?
They said I am a monstrosity.
Oh, please tell me that it's a pack of lies.

Why must they be so cruel and unkind,
To torture one who's never caused them pain?
Now I am in my loneliness confined
And feel that I'm about to go insane.

You're the only friend I can call my own.
Please stay, I'm so afraid to be alone.

You, Hypnus, like your brother promise peace

You, Hypnus, like your brother promise peace,
A respite from the troubles of the day.
Enveloping us in a downy fleece,
You take us to a land where we would stay.

But stay we can't for soon we must arise
To greet Helios in his fiery splendor.
He watches over us with blazing eyes,
Which trees and plants, all living things, engender.

But as soon as he finishes his ride
And returns at night to his golden home,
We long for you to return to our side,
That we may in your quiet country roam.

O Hypnus, grant us your all-soothing sleep
And we'll forever your name holy keep.