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A Hymn to Human Death

Tessa Limberger, student intensive 'Omgaan met Sterven' op post-hbo niveau

30 maart 2025

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A Hymn to Human Death

Oh, give me a human death

If the world should end tonight

If its precincts should succumb to the sun’s holy light

or a great rock halve it’s life,

or it perish in man’s nuclear stupidity

I would not leave

I would not freeze my mind or battery my soul

I will go gladly to the shadow with all of earth’s cast

I will come into night with its cats and insects,

its weeds and sharp mountains and its disease

 

I do not want a digital cradle

I’d rather die with time’s animals than live a timeless life

Eternity cannot have me

I am made of too many happy atoms to be sad about death

 

I want to perish

I want to flame

I want to cry brightly

I want the agony of love

the beauty of the lost

I want the poetry ghosts have

 

I want to decay

I want my little human body to have its season and then away

and then away into its quiet room

I want to stand with my creaking bones

hold this last sorrow and say farewell

Say so long

to tomorrow

and tomorrow

and tomorrow

 

Tekst: Samuel Hurley

Afbeelding: Tessa Limberger

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