Best Poems Written by Candice Townsend

No Death For the Weary

...I 

loved like a run on sentence
mentally continuing thoughts of love lost

silently withering away...

& they would say 
my heart resembles barren land 
barely surviving the winter's harshest frost 

heaven had froze over 
hell to pay was the cost

& based on our trials 
I sentenced myself
into becoming a hollowed structure 

& I 
structured my spine into a physical slump 
so the world could see how hard it is 
for a mere human baring ungodly emotional weights 


I weighed...

multiple options of opinionated 
open ended questions 
questioning us while sleeping eyes wide shut 
wishing our love would thrive 
like vines entangled around coffins wishing 
for a breath of fresh air to enter a corpse esophagus 

which meant...

in order for us to appreciate 
such a love 
one of us would have to die 


& I'm still breathing...



...your death was a must...

Copyright © Candice Townsend | Year Posted 2012