"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" : Creative Post

When my eyes open 

A man in white stares in disbelief

With his eyes open

He explains this is no relief

My father walks back and forth

He looks at my face

He doesn't see a trace

Of him in myself

My life goes on

Yet they don't see

The person my age

Describes me to be

A wife for a moment

A child for a second

Education at the helm

But all disappear in an instant

My son walks back and forth

Yet he has no clue

That I was once a man

Without the attitude

When my eyes close

My memory fades

With my eyes close

The black becomes a lighter shade

This poem was written to explain "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first stanza is when Benjamin is first born and sees the doctor looking at Ben's appearance. The second portrays the father's feeling towards his newly born son and that he couldn't believe his eyes. The third stanza explains that not everyone in his town understands his age or his "curious case", while the fourth shows that later in life Benjamin had a wife, a son, and even a great education, but as he got younger it was gone in the blink of an eye. The fifth and sixth stanzas are mirrored off of the first and second. The fifth talks about Ben and his son having a relationship in which his son was treating him wrong (with an attitude). Finally, the sixth stanza describes Benjamin's life ending and, as I interpreted, him going to heaven in which the black turns into a lighter shade (the light of heaven).

IN THE MOURNING

There’s a boy that builds coffins

One for your brother, one for his lover

And when your brother dies

Try to keep heads high

When the lover comes

Please let him weep, not sigh

In the mourning you will wake

With seven devils

Your soul they could take

As she overcame

With a song about strange fruit

You must overcome

With a love that stays true

I say to you again

You must move on

Whether it be a blessing or a curse

There’s the living to attend to

Whether they be a blessing or a curse

I wrote this poem in explaining the story of another poem by the name of "How to Watch Your Brother Die" by Michael Lassell. My writing explains that when death (the boy that builds coffins) takes one brother that the other sibling must carry on with life. There was also a reference to Billie Holiday's song Strange Fruit in the second stanza. The words "in the mourning" was meant to mean not only mourning, but also when you wake up in the morning. Also, the seven devils are referencing the seven deadly sins which are always around you, sometimes closer than you think.

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