Oh I see where the confusion came in. You're all good.

Ah. I get you now.     


I was literally thinking this was translated from a Latin textbook until I saw the pic you posted.    


Weird. You didn't write it but it's also unclaimed. Interesting.

I have put it on OCpoetry. And I do agree with you but it's just just a unique situation. In a way, it is mine, and also not.

Not to bring trouble here, but this is OCpoetry where your own original works are to be posted.    


Unless, this is like a schtick or something, this may be more appropriate to post on r/poetry since it is not your work.

I love this. it’s so profoundly raw & bittersweet. it immerses one in the futility of life, but also touches on how this feeling of searching/trying to discover meaning in the grand scheme of things is a shared experience each of us goes through.

The random chaotic nature of the world that escapes our words and understanding is a guaranteed part of life for all of us. It ties our common experience of abandonment within our most peculiar qualities and how isolating our powerlessness can be.


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Dang, a good translation of Latin poetry! Most translations I have read sound rather clumsy outside of their original language. I like it! A reminder of just how recently everything in recorded history is and how much our socjety is eating away at our lives. TEMPUS EDAX RERUM.

The poem captures just how noticeable yet often ignored the constraints of society have gotten. When you are part of the system it seems to wear away at one's individuality and will. Isolation while surrounded by people has become a universal sickness. The concept of a physical community is so foreign to most that they fall deeper into despair with the realization of what they are lacking.

kind of reminds me of a pink floyd song haha

We are so small 

In a world so large. 

Are you lost? 

Tossed in a sea of faces? 

Are you naked in the cold? 

Do you cry when others luagh? 

Do you luagh when others cry? 

Do you try to grasp at life, 

While it slips through your fingers? 

Do you feel helpless, void? 

Unnumbered, possesed, and calculated. 

Welcome to the great human race.

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Like I stated in the title, I found this in an abandoned 1934 Latin textbook. I am unsure on some of the words in the second to last line, so if you want to help try and figure out out I will be posting the picture on another post.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/yxet00/long_days/iwsbygz?utm_medium=android_app&amp;utm_source=share&amp;context=3 

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/yy568a/not_a_man/iwsc8nr?utm_medium=android_app&amp;utm_source=share&amp;context=3

Human Race (Poem I found in a 1934 Latin textbook)