Showing results for tag "loss"

Brevity

Andy

06 Feb, 2016 07:22 PM
Numbed,
My fingertips glaze across rain-soaked granite,
And a chill sinks into my bones,
To match the petrified ruin where my heart once beat.
For this is the only caress I can give you now,
A distant embrace
That will always yearn for true release.

I place a single, rain kissed rose against the stone,
Fragile red on cold hard grey.
Unbidden memories reduced to brevity
Gouge my every breath with memory’s shards,
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Tags: Death, Loss, Revenge, Grave
Votes: 3
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Disappointment.

Pride Ed

27 May, 2014 05:00 AM
like when I saw them
 falling. 
 Shot out of the sky,
 gun still shooting astral wings, 
 smoke still churning from the barrel,
 and I hate that I see it linger 
 longer than the last breath they inhale. 

A child breathes that air. 
 That air means
 gas to those useless 
 childhood thoughts;
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Tags: Atheism, Death, Angels, Innocence, Loss
Votes: 1
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