Friday, January 1, 2010

Gravestones (a poem from 2005)

Gravestones

There was no sense in sleeping.
       They weren’t ready to experience silent slivers of death.

One had already left the living,
                       the loving…
the life.

                     And she had watched him drown himself,
                                                                                 his friends,
                                                                                          his family,
                                                                                                her.

His blood ran cold, stone for veins
     and a half-eaten heart.
                         Yet they stayed together.
                           She for no other reason, except to protect him.
                            And he for no other reason, except to remain unhinged.

He spat at the world,
                         and she chased the wind down desperate city streets.

But in the end
                they showered their ashes on each other…

                                            And found their gravestones side by side.

                                                                         ~ S.S. (2005)

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