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Fizzle
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0 posted 2009-04-12 02:56 PM


O, moon, the night is woe
even though, I've tried harder,
harder to bleed than ever before

Honey bee, why do you ignore
the bleeding, blooming flower
more willing now than before?

Mercy, Life, mercy please!
can you not see?
see that I dare to bleed?

Why, then, must you torment me?

I, I who dare to live and bleed
bleed and live, for love and thee
I beg you, nay, I plead!

Must I sacrifice more?
What would suffice?
What more must I do
to pay the price?

Life, by the gods, my life!
Treacherous, weak thing!
Never have I such
suffering seen,
never
never have I such sufferer been!


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Gaia
1 posted 2009-04-12 04:58 PM


A poignant write of unrequited love, or just restlessness from insomnia...either way, good luck!

Fizzle
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2 posted 2009-04-12 05:14 PM


The first

The title is due to it being written just before I went to sleep. I seem to do that often.

JamesMichael
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3 posted 2009-04-14 06:38 PM


Fine writing...James
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