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the silent killer is my new friend they didn't chose their words kindly nor wisely the fist in my chest the heartbeat in my ears 250/100 the sum of all my fears have you ever scraped your soul so close to the knife of death you felt it enter into you? a black hole , a mistep into the center of myself I recognize now the pulled beam of life that once was in my mother-father's eyes see how everybody dies it can be impersonal how it all comes to pass too soon death doesn't giggle with you it laughs out loud and couldn't care less about your feelings death made me frown while I began to wander in its never never lands it slithered words into my ears as if I wanted its confidences: say what number are you now can you give me the sum total of your life? then the man behind the mask began to ask and distract with his designated questions I had no patience to answer because Death was chewing on my heart I was caught within my thoughts struggling too to recall my story line while feeling myself untethering from my life so many thoughts they became hanging clouds before my moistened eyes this seems undignified inconceivable I thought more believable to perish on an ancient battle field than yield to this dull plodding thing which quietly terrifies a thought intercedes: where are my people I didn't write an elegy where is my bed with the pleasing tree lined view where are the arms that will receive me if there's a heaven? the horses I didn't hear them at all nor did I see the chariots coming why have they stopped? who is that above me staring down into me why its my frightened face who's realized I'm rather alone pain can be an eternity of waiting for reprieve and shaking the palm called loneliness. written directly to the page LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POEM 5/20/2023 12:02QM TIME AND DATE STAMPED AND ALSO FOR THIS POET WRITER AUTHOR MELISSA A. HOWELLS RE EDITED 5/31/ 2023 TIME 3 :34AM PST...TIME AND DATE STAMPED FOR COPYRIGHT@ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THIS AUTHOR MELISSA A. HOWELLS AND MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED AND LEGALLY REGISTERED SITE TITLE MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD Vote for this poem |
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