Series "LIT or absolute SH*T" EPISODE 1

EPISODE 1: Runo suoni kukkii, mutta maa on hedelmätön

This is a poem I wrote a few months ago after I saw a dream where it appeared. It mostly symbolizes death and the fact we all are going to get old, die and lose the person we are now. Or maybe not lose, but we will change. In ten years from now we aren't the same and it is one of the meanings of life - changing. This poem is originally written in Finnish, but I translated it to you all so more people could understand it even tho it lost a lot of the symbolic meanings due to the translation.

Nuoruuden hedelmä

Utopiaa, utopiaa

päästä minut unen topiaan

harsokankaan taakse sulje

ei höyhensaarille tieni kulje

toiseen ulottuvuuteen uuteen

Iho kuivuu, rypistyy ja uurtuu

vuodet painaa ja aika muurtuu

Rusinaa, rusinaa

Oi, kaiho vie minut vetten taa

Sinne nuoruuden sydämein kaa

Nyt iho on tehty rusinasta,

eikä ole merkkiäkään nuoruudesta,

joka nyt on jo kaukana

lauttana maailmalla 

- minä (7.3.2026, Suomi)

Translation:

Fruit of youth

Utopia, utopia

Let me into the topia of sleep

close me behind the gauze

my path doesn't lead to the island of sleep

to another dimension, to a new one

The skin dries, wrinkles and furrows

years weigh down and time gets stuck

Raisin, raisin

Oh, longing take me beyond the waters

There to be with the heart of youth

Now the skin is made of raisins

and there is no sign of youth

which is already far away

as a ferry across the sea

- me (7.3.2026, Finland)

The first verse symbolizes death that is so calm and peaceful it feels like falling asleep. The land of sleep (in Finnish höyhensaari = the land of feathers) is a dreamy place where we (animals, human, everyone) go when we fall asleep. The second verse symbolizes the process of aging. The skin getting wrinkly like a raisin and something society doesn't want it to become. The last two lines mean the journey of traveling to the "land of sleep" which is really the afterlife. Longing in that verse means Kaiho in finnish and it's hard to translate. It is a melancholic, calm, nostalgic feeling of missing something that you might never get back. In this case it's the youth. The last verse symbolizes the time before death. The time a person starts to think about their past life and what they have achieved.

I might be biased, but i will give it LIT this time. It has good elements but I feel like the poem could be a lot better. It is close to absolute trash, but because of the Finnish version and good vocabulary on it, I have to give LIT. Feel free to give your opinion! LIT or absolute SH*T?