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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2001-06-08 08:05 AM

Her face,
an antique painting
of hard lines and buried life,
now a tombstone for the
passions of youth
long passed.

A voice
crackling with
distance traveled static
that flares in heated hate
an epitaph for the
songs once sung.

Alive in her spring
she danced without thought
now paying a price
which left her begging,
“spare me a beer?”

Who can blame her
for perching on barstool
and numbing the pain of
what she could have been,
should have been,
in rot gut and lies.

I finish my beer,
and pause one moment
before I go,
to look at the rows
of regret engraved tombstones,
marking lives ended
long before
death.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2001-06-08 05:03 PM

Cpat--You picture this so well..I can see in my mind what your words have created...a poignant and sad portrait.

Watersign6
Senior Member

since 2001-05-25

Posts 823
Hurricane,WV

2 posted 2001-06-08 08:28 PM

you amaze me so Cphat,this one has alot of meaning and is enjoyed

azblond
Senior Member

since 1999-07-01

Posts 637
The Steamy Desert

3 posted 2001-06-09 12:59 PM

"I finish my beer,
and pause one moment
before I go,
to look at the rows
of regret engraved tombstones,
marking lives ended
long before
death"

Chilling, for sometimes the living no longer have life.

Let my words fall first upon deaf ears before a closed mind...

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

4 posted 2001-06-09 01:01 AM

Very well expressed. Well done!

SilentSongs
Junior Member

since 2001-05-31

Posts 43
Mist of Time

5 posted 2001-06-09 01:14 AM

Tombstones Luckystones
at least the pain is incomplete

as carving removes the mind to
the center of the BloodFlowingEye

"The past my prison, confined in solitary voiceless penance."

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2001-06-09 08:03 AM

Quite stark, and even carried it a bit of the dust that sweeps through the swinging doors....

Excellent!

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