The Lyre

The Lyre

I want to be noticed.
I want my words to be sung in songs,
to be quoted in wedding vows.
I want to be in the diaries of broken souls,
used as a dedication in a soft eulogy
for a person with too much love.
I want to be etched in a tombstone,
onto tree bark and then faded away by the weather.
Whether my words are forgotten
or because they are returning
to find sustenance from my corpse.
I want to be noticed.
And then I want to disappear.

Notes

Notes

Below are some notes about this piece, including the thoughts and external inspirations that occurred during its creation. 
Bear in mind, this is simply what I was thinking of when I wrote these poems and what they mean to me. If you interpreted them differently, that does not diminish how you felt as the reader nor the correctness/incorrectness of what you were thinking. 
The Lyre [2023] is a prose poem with the title itself being a homophone of the word “liar”. It is about the juxtaposition of wanting to be remembered and wanting to be a small detail of something greater. It was also inspired by the 'Soldier, Poet, King' trend that was popular at this time. Brownie points for you if you can guess which one I was. 
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Below are some notes about this piece, including the thoughts and external inspirations that occurred during its creation.
Bear in mind, this is simply what I was thinking of when I wrote these poems and what they mean to me. If you interpreted them differently, that does not diminish how you felt as the reader nor the correctness/incorrectness of what you were thinking. Poetry is subjective, and so is being alive.

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