Longing To Perish
I feel the willows sway in the midst of my b r o k e n hearted moments,
I keel over on my pillow with fists clenched, unguarded lost in atonement.
After all was said and done your death threw my heart in the tumbled breeze,
after your soul bled you knew a fresh start wouldn't give your trouble ease.
Forgiven behavior releases a relinquished desire to keep on weeping,
I beg my Savior, "oh PLEASE! Extinguish my fire"…while you're left sleeping.
A thousandfold tears can’t even compare to all the craving salt I’ve cried,
I lay and hold your blanket in fear, if only I could’ve saved you from suicide.
If staying you decided, would my arms holding yours free you from your pain?
You chose dying and causing harm to yourself, unfolding your decree in vain.
I NEEDED you then…I need you now…how will my lost soul keep on existing?
I pleaded to you then…I PLEAD to you now…you lost control and kept resisting.
For every day I spent with you was the best memories I will always cherish,
you didn’t stay, I knew you’d get your way…for you always longed to p e r i s h.
*Couplet with internal rhyme*
Couplet Time-Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Rick Parise
Date Written: August 21, 2016
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