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peoplelikeus
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since 2001-05-09
Posts 4
sheffield, england
0 posted 2001-05-10 01:55 PM

Requiem/What Love Is...

In the end she had
Relinquished any control
She possessed
To the powers that be

The NHS
The local authority

And it still seems strange
That even before the
Skin on her face
Had become flaccid
Discolored

Before the life had been
Emptied from each
Dying cheek

She did not cry
Or wail
Just mourned

And she mourned
So much it slowly
Killed her

And hurt
So contagiously
It hurt us all

Pain that
Knew no words,
Retribution or self pity
Only silence & confusion

And looking back
Her dormant requiem
Revealed the chasm
He had left behind

A vacuous void
Only the tumor
Could fill

Yet the smile
& serenity, as she departed
Left the lingering notion,

Maybe that's what love is...
© Copyright 2001 Neil Robertson - All Rights Reserved
Tiersdin
Member Elite
since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364
east coast
1 posted 2001-05-10 02:03 PM

Cuts like a knife because I've felt this way. Enjoyed reading!

*smiles*
~Tier
serenity blaze
Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
2 posted 2001-05-10 02:05 PM

Welcome to the forum! This is an intriguing piece and has a quality of sad ponder to it that reminded me of, well...ME.  

Looking forward to reading more of your work!  
Irish Rose
Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263
3 posted 2001-05-10 04:38 PM

welcome and your poetry is fabulous!

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee
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