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Open Poetry #46

Bloodshot

wicked
Junior Member

since 2010-01-29

Posts 22
Florida, USA

0 posted 2010-01-30 02:54 PM

Wrapped in infinite oblivion
her heart is broken glass
and the face in the mirror is not hers
and blood that flows
from the corpse of a memory
but the dead don't bleed
nor will the rose that never wilts
so she slits her wrist
and bleeds across the sky
but does not die
and slips into eternity
with two scarred wrists
and the angels open their eyes
and do not like what they see
swallowed by insanity
and hearts burning alive
lie shattered in the dark
in the dust
and saints succumb to lust
and she writes the word help
in her breath on the window
but no one sees it
as they all pass her by in her cage
of glass and vanity
screaming silently to the angel
called tragedy who holds her hand
as he slowly slips away
and waves goodbye
across the bloodred sky
from the blood of the sun
and the ocean black from tears
wept by those drowning
in the depths of infinity
of forever slowly
slipping through her fingers
moment by moment
and the glass is shattered
and the diamond on her finger is fake
like the heart of the giver
and the words of the preist
and the promise of the stars
as they weep
and beauty always fades
but so sad a thing when the beautiful go blind
and the promises die young
swallowed by tyrrany
and infinity of the forever
that never comes
to those who wait alone
bearing wilting roses that never die
and hearts made of glass and vanity
that break but never feel
that bleed but don't run dry
and tears that fall but never fade
from bloodshot eyes.

Copyright LD 2010

I am that I am,
And that makes it me.
I float like a rock
But I sting like a bee.

noman
Junior Member

since 2009-12-26

Posts 18

1 posted 2010-01-31 04:50 AM

For sure, hearts are made of glass. A good read.

GBride
Senior Member

since 2009-07-02

Posts 538

2 posted 2010-02-07 01:48 PM

Outstanding!
There are non better than this one!
Bravo, this is stunning poem!

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