Exit Wounds

vacant shell yawning
extinguished spirit spawning
a peek at souls
who lived within these walls

days and years of silence
that held in abeyance
the score of awful years
as due care disappears

tended garden dying
dead heads sighing
door finally clicking closed
silent ending unopposed
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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