Goner

You aimless corpse,
Why have you not returned
To the depths of the forest floor?
To the desolated mountain lake,
Where the waters are cold as ice
Like sharp needles on burnt skin
You still cease this life
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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August 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM
A very beautiful poem, well I mainly like it because of the imaginations you ve put in it, Spmeone told me that poetry is all about expressing your feelings, emotions and imaginations clearly and you ve done a good job here, well seeing the dates of your poems, it appears that you haven t written any in a long time, well when you wiprite a new one, don t forget to tell me, I ll be more than happy to read them and can you plz read mine as well, I joined this site in may 2017
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