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SlowlyFallAway
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since 2008-08-29
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North Carolina

0 posted 2012-03-05 12:47 PM


I took a sip

     Swallowed

   The taste lingered

Like the bitter hollow

       Feeling of being

    Empty


An aftertaste

        Nearly unbearable

    With a hint

    Of faded passion

Played out

       Behind layered velvet

     Hidden from society

But disclosed

        To every individual

     Absorbing

Another fatal attraction


         He thinks I don't know

    I know

I just don't want to

       And the only decent compromise

    Is pressed in between

Two oxidized acids

       Trapped inside a glass

   Confident pressure

Can YOU digest?


Because I wouldn't drink from that

.

-Emily Shives
March 4th 2012

© Copyright 2012 Emily Shives - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2012-03-05 05:56 AM


Interesting take on failed love,  better know as fatal attraction, because by the time it is over there has been a bloodletting. Maybe not real blood, but even that sometimes.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2012-03-07 06:42 PM


Nice...James
ebonygirl
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since 2011-07-14
Posts 2000
California U.S.A
3 posted 2012-03-08 12:05 PM


Sounds like Jack Daniels, straight up. Cool write.
ms. e

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