A place of nobody
Where even the gods make love
A place where nobody lives;
For someone is out to kill
A place where nobody dies;
We die to live in our dust:
Our epitome of glory.
Then shall our change come
Cultivated by the foot of many generations
For there's always a first time
To die, and that's the last
And I, a virgin in death
Would think of my last sin
In a place of no name.

©2016

Is the theme of your poem 'Death' or 'Rebirth'. Though there's something morbid about it.

Cc: TheAgba.

joseph1832:
Is the theme of your poem 'Death' or 'Rebirth'. Though there's something morbid about it.

Cc: TheAgba.

Death and Change sire

TheAgba:


Death and Change sire

I see. Nice one all the same.

joseph1832:
I see. Nice one all the same.

Thanks sire

Pls annotate the poem biko.

miclez:
Pls annotate the poem biko.

As the title of the poem implies, "no man's land" refers to the earth as the land and no man owns the earth.

The religious stuffs in the poem are "where the gods make love" and "we die to live in our dust" which explains that we don't die as also stated in the poem. From dust we come and dust we return.

Sorry for that rough. Thanks

TheAgba:


As the title of the poem implies, "no man's land" refers to the earth as the land and no man owns the earth.

The religious stuffs in the poem are "where the gods make love" and "we die to live in our dust" which explains that we don't die as also stated in the poem. From dust we come and dust we return.

Sorry for that rough. Thanks

What about the last five lines?

miclez:

What about the last five lines?

Anyway, those lines just talk about the fact that we have only one life to live. The first time we die is our last. A virgin in death because we die once and not twice. Just like a lady can't be disflowered twice.

Thanks