if you ever wait and wonder

[marnanel]

CW sui mention. Still working on this.

If you ever wait and wonder why you're living on the earth
If you're thinking that you might as well be dead;
If the darkness ever whispers that your life is lacking worth
And your place should pass to someone else instead:

There waits a task that no-one else is competent to do.
Without your hand it never could be done.
There lives a mind that keeps a place particular for you,
That can't be filled by any other one.

Oblivion may call you— as it must do, by and by,
But contradict the darkness with the truth:
You thought the world won't miss you, but remember that's a lie:
your loss would linger like a missing tooth.

Comments

[brainwane]

I like this.

[cjsmith]

This is lovely.

(Though I admit I wish my task would hurry up and get here.)

[oryx_and_crake]

This is a great poem. Thank you.