stargraven | Poetry Remix: SteveTony Games Angst Fill -- These Old Bones (Reply)

This is a remix based upon Cathalinaheart's poem, or more accurately, based upon her English translation of her poem written in German. I interpreted her translation with a great many liberties, hence considering it a remix.

The derivative work is created and posted with Cat's permission.

The blood is not yet dry before the wound is again torn open.
It hasn't healed, only festered, for years.
Where once I hoped, now I remember,
and question what might once have been my reason.

Was it worth it, our friendship, from beginning to end?
When thinking that you loved me was the beginning of the end?
And if you saw me now, a laying on of eyes become a laying on of hands,
what is it they would do, would wreak, would give or take?

What is left?
Our house is ruins, is rubble, is glass after thrown stones
when no one was righteous or right.
The walls came down, the ghosts given up.
Body, carcass, corpus, now empty of a soul
but still haunted.
Too weak to stand, too much inertia to fight.
Too tired to heal, to let the wound or the door close.

Once we gave each other the kiss of life.
Then brought each other the kiss of death.
Now we lay in the wet ground
fertile with the fruit of murder
solidly rooted, silently growing, upon a silent, rotted world.

Here's Cat's translation of her poem. She notes that it is a very literal translation.

The blood is not yet dry,
the wound open again.
It hasn’t healed in years.
I remember, and I ask myself,
was there ever a reason for hope?

Was our friendship worth it?
It was the beginning of the end.
Once, I thought you loved me,
but if you see me now,
what do your hands do?

Our house is in ruins,
it hasn’t been a home in years.
The body too tired for the fight,
but that doesn’t stop us
opening the wound again and again.

Once we gave each other the kiss of life,
once we murdered each other,
Now we lay in the wet ground,
because nothing we did was healthy.
The world around us is silent.

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Fic
Bingo Prompt: Growing Old Together (opposite day)
Content Warning: MCD
Extra Prompts: Red Zone, I Remember
Main Universe: 616