My Soul Departed

He fades with the night, the shadow makes us three,
He dangles from my rope 
with shattered sanity.
When I exude with light and rejoice in the sun,
he grips to the silent echoes from a withered thundering gun.
He is the image in the mirror, a burning reflection of me,
like ivy blistering,
he scorched the faithful tree.
He is the desert drifting to despair,
clinging to life solely by the fibers of his hair.
I often ponder how he found peace within pain.
From the cross he softly muster,
that “life was bitterly vain.”
We were friends, we are foes, yet we can only be one.
Now he lies dead on the cross and
I held the thundering gun.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Heslop Avatar
August 7, 2009 at 3:48 PM
nice work...grrth
Brown Avatar
August 7, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Another day we are blessed to be here reading and writing poetry. Thank you for sharing your wonderful poetry today Tin. Love, Carol
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August 7, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Very nicely written. Keep writing. Sara
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