Alone in life Alone in death Found under the underpass With whiskey and bloated stomach Did the birds mourn you? Did the river whisper tears? Did the moon keep watch As you laid dying? Did God glance your way? ***** Your stench found you out Unnoticed Unimportant Until now They scurry about your corpse like […]
Pulling the skull pieces from the wall The brain matter spread over it all. You didn’t intend it but your last grace Is that at least you didn’t destroy your face. ***** Maybe those you left behind will view The pieces I put back together of you But that wholeness, security you broke Have burned […]
Waves crash over you, throwing body and mind In chaotic directions of darkness and pain. You were made for the land and so you hold your breath As you claw your feet into the ground. The currents pull you out deeper and deeper Each gasp is met by another wave of details and emotions. What […]
The Promethium advances of medical science Watch from the sidelines as deteriorating minds Are rendered to a nascent infancy where Memory Words And person Fade backwards into nothing. If you give something away you don’t lose it. “Nothing can be done” your doctor sheepishly admits “Your time is slowly fading” Your questions like, […]
They say, “She’s at rest.” Their bald mother lays with distorted breast. Breasts that fed Removed. Arms that held Motionless. Her warm smile Her voice Her love Locked in the vault of the soul. Her children’s liminality has ended. Today, they are only parents They can throw away the adult diapers The myriad of pills and […]