If Life Is Strife

Life is strife
But strife is life
Pain lingers in my core
I can feel it evermore
Who wouldn’t will a cry,
Rather than demand to die?

Life is strife
But strife is life
I only stalk the night
With a knife in my right
Spiting curses and fear
Gripping my shadow near

Life is strife
But strife is life
I am only a corpse
Living on others’ crops
Like a standing skeleton
Charged to build a guillotine
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Deremer Avatar
July 19, 2016 at 2:32 PM
Very full of emotion.
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