An Ancient Tale

Sometimes, if I'm overtired, I will spout gobbledegook to myself.  Last night, not long before going to sleep, I decided to translate some of it, and make a poem.  This is what I've got so far.  I don't know whether to continue it or not, I'd like to.  I don't want to make it too obscure though, to the point where it is totally incoherent!  Hopefully, with a bit of thought, it should be translatable.  

I will add more, but I'm not sure where to take it yet.  I will translate it at some point, but why make it too easy.....?!


Um Skœrna ist tärn;
Se vets pa da nët,
Venne se flid, en da dack.
Als kidder be aschäffer
Lest se es ton härd.....

Too Late

I don't know whether this is finished or not.  I like it just as it is, but it was meant to be the start of something longer.  What do you think?


All the things I never was
And all the lives I never led
Too late to live them when you're gone.
Too late to live them when you're dead.

One Day...

This is unfinished at the moment - something I scribbled down a few months ago, just before nodding off to sleep.

One day,

One of us will be

Alone – a

Single

Limb.

Solo drumstick,

Without its mate.

An empty, breathless bed,

Silence at the table.

Only memories for company.

Stretch out now and reach for warmth. 

Now.

In Remembrance

These are not my words...  these are some of the quotes (etc) I was looking to choose from to use for a funeral....

"Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear:
Of his strange language all I know
Is, there is not a word of fear"

W S Lander

"Say not in grief that she is no more

but say in thankfulnesss that she was.

A death is not the extinguishing of a light,

but the putting out of a lamp

because the dawn has come."

Rabindranath Tagone

"Perhaps they are not stars, but, rather, openings in Heaven, where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy."

 (Eskimo legend)

"Grief is the price we pay for love"   

Queen Elizabeth II

"It is not the length of life, but the depth of life..."   

E R Waldo

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Nathaniel Hawthorne