flame of life

• Artist: I Akihiko I
• Description: two different perspectives on identical issues.
  
  be honest in your ratings and comments, plz. :B
• Date: 10/16/2008
• Tags: flame life

I.
I'm not afraid of burning if I live to tell the tale.
Heretic though I may be, if yet my life stirs on,
I can be the happy man,
Who whittles in the darkness of a Lincoln-logged chamber
Or brews a stew of carrots for his children, still unborn.
A simple life though it may seem, it is for this life I yearn.

II.
I dread the day my body burns, but death I never fear.
The martyr snatches subjects even from his ground-hog grave,
But the witch snares no one in her clutch of damnation.
Angels revere heroes; devils worship hate.
I have played the hero.
When out the candle blows, my flame will yet live on.

Comments

[The_Broken_Fox_2112]

Both sides are written very well. I can see that one is an outcast but he's okay with the fact because he has a family that is more important to him. It seems he doesn't want to fight and die, but he doesn't seem to mind if he were to fight as long as it didn't threaten his life. He is afraid for the future. The other man, however, lives for that feeling of danger. He lives the lives others don't because of their inability to handle fear. Fear of death vs Fear of not living. Very good! 4/5

[NakedJack]

The warrior and farmer, seems like the ideas presented here. What a vain pursuit the warrior undertakes. The farmer is an outcast just for not not wanting to fight. Of course you use different words, but the ideas are the same. I think this poem is awesome....I don't rate, but you know what, you are asking me to... 5/5