Simon Ashcroft on Nostr: Epitaphs are for the dead. Memorials. An unwritten epitaph, then, is something ...
Epitaphs are for the dead. Memorials. An unwritten epitaph, then, is something understood, a recollection for something that is gone. Some part of your life you thought had ceased, emotions that you thought had died, Michelle (npub1dsd…l2mp) ?
But the epitaph drowns "in every breath." Then, that which was thought dead must have been revived, and the memorial, itself, become redundant as a result.
Every breath "we take" indicates some shared experience. The effect of this other person - the "touch", being the revival that you experience. "Dares death to wake" suggests a challenge. Perhaps reviving something you had, in some way, put into a metaphorical grave, and now you feel challenged to experience once more?
But the epitaph drowns "in every breath." Then, that which was thought dead must have been revived, and the memorial, itself, become redundant as a result.
Every breath "we take" indicates some shared experience. The effect of this other person - the "touch", being the revival that you experience. "Dares death to wake" suggests a challenge. Perhaps reviving something you had, in some way, put into a metaphorical grave, and now you feel challenged to experience once more?