Elegy
Husk
You swept into my life And stole all my nights That bled into years My greatest of fears Animated within A soulless husk Frankenstein At least Left his monster with a mob Where by the end Even our passion was an act Until you finally Blessedly Evaporated Leaving me alone with A blood-drained heart And a wine-stained bed
By Matthew J. Fromm2 months ago in Poets
✅✅ A Mantra for KINDNESS: Cancer and Compassion, Liberty and Love ✅✅
Mantra for Survival: Post Cancer Blues waking up to a NBC news tale. . . t rying to survive another day in pain. . . . reading that insurance companies deny cancer patients. . . . having been denied for cancer treatments myself and crying. . .
By SAMURAI SAM: Wild Wayne2 months ago in Poets
Corneal Static. Runner-Up in Static Challenge.
Darkness enveloping darkness eyes soaring scouring sinking searching redemption No none no light not outside not within no silence nothing but a hundred white dots taunting trembling treacherous dots engulfing entrapping entangling (Exfoliating? Extravagance!) Extraordinary dots peeling the dry corneas of my soul reaching inside getting ready to gut the grieving thoughts blink No tears just a thousand white dots multiplying like meercats, suricats, or just angry cats with their claws and their cackling screeches deft ears picking up on screams long gone your voice echoing in this nauseating nothingness A million white dots mullying over whether I deserve a second chance Mullying? Mull-y-ing Mulling? M U L L I N G O V E R What's "deserve" ? What's "second"? Why? their words their worlds their choice for they have filled and taken every piece of me that smelled like you there’s nothing left behind my eyes but darkness living breathing darkness made of dots .
By Sasha Desideri3 months ago in Poets
