Cemetery Rose

oh angel 
your ashes spread so far 
so cold 
your feathers touched 
against the sky of stars
in the mornings light 
you blessed me with 
your freezing arms
and that light was choked 
rose and red 
against the peddles 
of the dead
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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