Poem -

Some Mountains Are Just Too Hard To Climb

author
Shirley Harrison
Some Mountains Are Just Too Hard To Climb

Love’s truth
spread out on a sheet of red ink
blood drained
from my weakened veins
sucked violently into my pen
drowned in agony
as I write from
the ancient ruins
of my very own Everest
I am without lines…
 
just vertigo.

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Total votes: 6
Tags: 
Acceptance Life Love
Poetry Genre: 
Drama Freestyle
Topic: 
Love
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Marion

I love this Shirley, it is beautiful poetic and full of imagery and yet conveys a strong sense of the kind of seeping agony that is so hard to put into words but you have and brilliantly too x

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Shirley Harrison

Such kind words dearest Marion, thank you dear friend. 💙 

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