Death

Thank you.

I'll let you go with a smile
you saved me when the demons
tried to ride me...

I remember her always.
Mom was the cornerstone
of my life.
In my eyes
always...

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...

Deadly bubbles squeeze from viscous heaps
Disturbing the mist as over marsh it creeps
...

I have known
the sweetness of love.
The songs of springtime
with its mandolin winds...

Flowers wither and die
by the guidelines
of their natural timeline

Beauty erodes...

Over hills I've seen, spattering's of red
Across winters snowy dead
Women, his preoccupation...

This is it.

It's the day I tell her how I feel.

I corrected my tie in the mirror.

I...

The day I close my eyes in death

that inevitable day when I take my last breath

may i be...

Sometimes I stare down
At icy water
And,
Feel the cold,
I do it so often...

Chills run up, and down my spine, though I can no longer breathe

The tainted blood upon the knife,...

Lips rimmed with a hue of blue

his eyes pained and strained

he huddles against the wall...

In summers past, I died
a child,
and in the slow melt
of autumn's
colors, all...

There you lay

still as stone

no one was there to hear your last, anguished moan

you...

Not for me a single rose,

a gentle kiss upon my nose

as you present my breakfast tray,...