Tattered

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contest tattered, tearful, threadbare, tomb words

sponsor Constance La France

Darkness abounds in my heartfelt sorrow where she left me stripped of pride a battered crippled soul who aimlessly wanders in darker realms of blue I continually drown in tears of anguish for being such a fool she used to fill her lonely need and led me to this room of scattered light where I dance with shadows in my mind that haunt me my pain is captured in my swollen eyes as I stumble through one bottle after another of warm whiskey becoming an image of self-pity wanting to die from this curse that came from her cold black eyes that burned my wormy flesh now being eaten by maggots of regret leaving a parched skeleton crumbling in the grave of my heart a vanquished soul whose love was stolen by words believed from her hungry words of desire leaving me a torn and tattered lonely drunk

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Constance La France

Date: 4/23/2024 5:24:00 AM

Frederic, congratulations on your win in my contest with this awesome poem, Constance

Chetta Achara

Date: 3/7/2024 4:42:00 PM

Your poem is so smoothly written I read in from beginning to end without even realizing. Few poems do that to me. A wonderful write on a not so wonderful subject, but many of us have been exactly where the subject of your poem finds himself.