A Death Is A Living Paradise

• Rowana Saab, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2017

Dying a thousand deaths and living for eternity,
Is truly better than living an extra second of hell in humanity.
What must one do to be separated, from the contrasts between paradise and destruction?
Isn't living a lie, and dying as equally as what you've lived an eternal suffering?
For it’s the damning pain that rips us piece by piece, which is our life's longing determination to live in eternal happiness.
Lover’s quarrel between men is the ultimate sacrifice paid for being alive.
Surely, this blessing ruins the deep sentiments which our hearts hold preciously treasured.
This is no war between the thoughts of men, but a torturous battle between love and lust.
Only those who capture the true essence of love, will be granted the gifts of dearest possessions.
Not in materialistic form, but in the way which only the broken heart understands.
Let not love be a barrier between brotherhood, but rather let emotion be the frame which bonds life and death as an equal paradise…
A paradise foretold from the depths of hell.