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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2018-05-09 10:21 AM


I bent and kissed her cheek
in parting
n’er thinking she would be dead
on the morrow
she called me a dreamer
aye, I have that glint in my eyes
but more than a dream
I cast my lot
upon the wild and treacherous
fate called a hallucination
alongside a shaky vision into the future
I’ve yet to learn
what we see with cloudy eyes is nothing more
than a delusion
within a figment of imagination
now I rest
amid her death’s wail
stuck inside this swamp’s piercing anger
I have found paradise
but I shall forever live here alone
braced against that cold, wanton wind
called Mariah
this paradise I have found
Mariah has told me of the demise
of my one love, my lovely bride-to-be
has turned into a
window of hell
as I moan and shed tears for
my sweetness
n’er again to hold and love
and, as I cry
is what all we can see
is everything
only a nightmare made within a nightmare?

©February 18, 2018 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2018-05-10 08:12 PM


That's some heavy duty poetry there Jerry.
Some parts were painful to read. It felt like you really poured yourself into it. ~L

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2018-05-10 09:07 PM


Yes, Lori, this was a difficult write, and something I seldom write about. There are some things even I cannot delve into, and I so appreciate you reading and understanding that it was, a different kind of write for me. I didn't even touch upon it in the memoir.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

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