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Open Poetry #38

The Pit Fall

Grinch
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since 2005-12-31

Posts 2929
Whoville

0 posted 2006-08-22 07:49 PM

Is this death? Deep underground
With black coal an inch from your nose
Or a mile full of dark and as cold as your toes
Is this how it goes? A flickering light
As the battery runs low ‘til the night falls
Like the tunnel below with a groan

Am I alone? Tied to my fate
With a tugged rope and their whispers
Lipless psalms from nameless faces
Wasting our air with their prayer
Is my time almost there? Is this the end
In the dark by my friends?

They’re up there, my family of tears,
Where these drips once were rain
And will be again in the spring.
Will they hate me? For leaving them so
For letting them go on alone?
Take me now Lord and shorten their pain.

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2006-08-22 07:55 PM

Excellent images and metaphors....

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

2 posted 2006-08-22 07:57 PM

agreeing with Barry, this is excellent!

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