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Martyr to the Myth
January 16, 2011
Life is a collection
of moments and false dreams
that have been romanticized,
satirized, and blasphemed,
by imagination.
It is nothing more
than these fragments
of fading memories.
But could finding
feeling free from
neurons and neuroses
transcend one
above the living?
Could Heaven
be not a place
but a state of mind?
An ideal imbalance
of pheromones
and chemicals
that allows for
nervous bliss.
The capacity to give
oneself wholly
without knowing why.
Perhaps Romantics
pass young
by surrendering
to the Truth
they would die for.
I'd rather leave as
a Martyr to the Myth,
than live a fool without Love.
© Melanie M., Hendersonville, TN
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you."
— John Keats