# Zeitgeist

By [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible) · 2025-09-18

poem, hurts, death-rattle, dawn, darkness, orwell

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Hold my hand  
I know this hurts  
The death rattle of a dying age  
Be really here  
  
Don't despair  
Death with love is hope  
New life, the chance for change  
Our deepest care  
  
If we should die  
Before the bright new dawn  
We'll meet where there's no darkness\*  
I'll see you there

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*   this is a line borrowed and repurposed from the end of George Orwell's '1984'
    
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Selection of Poems
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A selection of my poems

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*Originally published on [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/zeitgeist)*