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Open Poetry #30

Journey: Six

Masked Intruder

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Near golden sunsets

0 posted 2003-12-18 05:01 PM

Pillowed by cold folds of clammy mud
and blanketed with icy rain drops
fallen from tempest laden skies,
She lay shivering along the roadside
waiting for her night to pass.

Praying to silent gods between shivers
and convulsing hungered shudders,
desperation transfigured in sobbing pleas
She turns her bruised face to the clouds
seeking direction, reason, truth.

A harrowing song played among the drops
that drifted in melancholy
through the thick cloud-washed skies,
hinting of darkness and death,
soft comfort and painless warmth.

It spoke into her emptiness,
echoing with clamorous precision
through long-abandoned channels
that once housed compassion, love, life
and settled heavily near her soul.

Relief distilled the cold prison,
a sanctity arisen from acceptance;
numbness spread in fickle waves,
casting about for limbs that still felt,
blindly groping for a heart that still beat.

She felt it take her, its embrace long and dark,
ending the terrible blindness that was her;
the last sigh escaped, forever parting
blue-rimmed lips in the semblance
of a reminiscent smile.

-*-*-

Cancer kills us all. I'm not immortal after all.

Daniel van Vliet
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since 2001-08-31

Posts 80

1 posted 2003-12-18 05:03 PM

"that once housed compassion, love, life
and settled heavily near her soul"

I like this line... wd

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