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Honeybee
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0 posted 2010-03-24 11:59 PM


And Yet, I Die


Today, I died.

A final act in a series of survival
through false promises
and battered flesh agony.

I've long since passed that threshold of cope
and God giving me more than I can handle.
I'm out of time and understanding
of sorrow stained tomorrows
that drag me through hell
only to wake the next morning -
a reckless ritual, to do it all again.

I've tried everyone and everything
and still, there are no answers,
no Band-Aids large enough
to stop the gush of vile
throbbing from my heart;
And, no surgeon has yet to cut out this ache
the listless complacency of it all;
This robotic numb
with it's mechanical beat
pumping faithless blood through veins.

Still, rose-coloured-glass-eye men
in crisp white lab coats
with their thoughtless theories
and indifferent statistics
say that it can’t be done;
That a heart is unable to break
in the science of things.

Yet, as they polish the lettering of my name
while darkness falls on cemetery stone
I'm proof that a heart can snap, jagged as bone.  

Still pretending god –
hope dares to show its face...
yet, without love
life has no meaning.

Inside I die.

By Melissa Long-Monette

[This message has been edited by Honeybee (03-25-2010 12:00 AM).]

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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2010-03-25 05:38 PM


quote:
Still pretending god –
hope dares to show its face...
yet, without love
life has no meaning.



Within us there is the source of love and we can tap into this treasure till our last breath... and then breathe on ...

Dear Melissa, this is such a powerful write, it reflects the extreme pain of moments we all know of I am sure. You are an excellent poet.

Love,
Margherita

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