Micheal's Death

She escaped the night
on a wet soaked pillow.
Yesterday she wed,
and today her husband is dead.

Micheal was driving along the valley main road,
and his car crashed.
blood,
tears,
pain.


Missing hands,
Missing legs,
Micheal lies dead.
The beat in her womb barely one day old,
but the father is no more.

Alarmed
shock
distressed,
she wails over Micheal's death

©2013 Christine Phillips
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Horn Avatar
March 3, 2018 at 9:19 AM
Death does open doors.
Suzadail Jr. Avatar
July 23, 2013 at 6:40 PM
We can only change what we can control. Sad but one must go on.
Harper Avatar
March 12, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Oh, can be too true, very sad, you capture the emotion well.
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