What remains for us?

by DreamWork

Published December 25, 2013

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What remains for us to see

when we look back and then stop for a moment?


Does it draw back a distant memory

and its wave crosses to our future?


Or are we simply want to relive,

just wanted to see how far the journey take us there—

To the road that we've never gone through?


Perhaps we want to see how strong we were heading,

and smiled a little when we fell down.

“The world is shrewd as serpent

and we just have to knock his head to escape!

And when we lost at the crossroads,

we know we have to find a way back.”

Answer: What remains for us is a trail of footprints,

on a foggy road.

Comments & reviews · 3

krishnathulasi wrote a review Review · Dec 30, 2013

Hello Dk :)

This poem definitely creates a nice mood and yes, it is smooth.
I am a little confused with meanings though.
The line 'and its wave crosses to our future?' And the last few lines didn't really work for me.
Maybe I really didn't get the meaning you wanted to convey properly or the other way round.

Hope this helps and if it did, I would be glad :)

Keep writing!

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QueenOfWords
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QueenOfWords wrote a review Review · Dec 25, 2013

Hi there! I'm gonna review this lovely, wonderful poem for you today, okay?
So, first things first, it was awesome.
Now, on to business. :)
In the second line, you might want to remove the "then". That word kind of interrupts the flow.
"Or are we simply want to relive," I'm not quite sure what you meant here, maybe that was a typo or something? Maybe you meant to say "do" instead of "are" or something like that.
"just wanted to see how far the journey take us there-" Again, I'm not quite sure what you meant. Maybe something like "how far it took for us to journey there" would be a better way of phrasing that.
"Shrewd as serpent"- I think that needs an "a".
"When we lost at the crossroads," - Did you mean to say "When we're lost"?
Well, thanks for writing this amazing poem, (even if it's not perfect - no poem is) and please write some more!
:D :D :D
~QueenOfWords~

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Renard
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Renard wrote a review Review · Dec 25, 2013

This is a work full of questions.

Questions I think are not really answered - until the end. But there is something kind of fitting in that, which makes sense for this piece.

In particular: Does it draw back a distant memory

and its wave crosses to our future?

I am not sure exactly how clear the answer is? XD I think it's definitely open to interpretation and you leave your reader with a sense of wonderment at the possibilities.

The language was simple and flowed well. The rhetorical questions were a brilliant idea.

Good work. :)

Thanks for a nice review. :)
p/s: Merry Xmas!^0^



A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
— Honore de Balzac