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The Day After

Life, by which a mothers death begins my forlorn voyage of this forsaken life without hope, followed by dreadful visions of a world alone. Death visits with a single slash of a sickle from witch an empty shell of a body remains, as I’m left within the abyss of blackness that misery bestows upon me. The world around me mutates and folds, as the innocents of a child’s mind is mutilated, and embodied with the eyes of a mans tormented soul. Flesh and blood with arms wide open, guiding me home as I am tethered to a chain, accompanied with the weight of the world, imprisoning me from a normal existence of life. Trap set with hopes of capturing a love unconditionally with warming eyes of hope accompanied by a soothing voice of security that is necessary to a child scared and alone to the big would around me. Abandoned at such a young age, brings in walls and barriers that allows this grief stricken boy shelter from the pain held deep within my soul allowing access to no one. Within the years to follow a young man now has to live with the profound pain and agony ensnared within my heart, buried deep, protecting myself from the torment that my future foretells, awaiting to cripple and maim this already broken hart.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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Date: 3/24/2016 8:59:00 PM
daniel baker, Enjoyed the way you expressed every line. Please keep writing and sharing your poetry. LOVE LINDA...
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Date: 7/27/2015 3:40:00 PM
DANIEL, I enjoyed reading your poem today. I hope you are well. Forever ~SKAT~
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