Ts Poetry Poet Free verse

The Lingering

I feel something
I do, I do

the comfort in the ache
salting the cut of my lip
the blood and her drip

sleepless nights
atoned and attested
the trials
tying me in knots

held captive
allowed only
to swing from her gallows
her hallows of eve
as hollow as they seem

and I see thru the blackness
nothingness
blinded by the barren brush
as the breeze blows
her winter's snow

and I am cold
so very cold
a weathering rock of stone
with frozen crystals as my bones
and never, never
have I felt so all alone

a breach in the existence of time
unable to speak
unable to reach
silenced, drown
in invisibility
lingering
in lifeless remnants of blue

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Jan Allison January 12, 2021 at 12:09 PM such sadness in your lines TS, hope you are ok... am more used to your romantic lines:-) hugs jan xx

Jenna Logan January 11, 2021 at 3:23 AM If only time could be breached, how different would be our choices? Rise from that dark, barren realm, TS. Let the sun reach you. Your lines are filled with sadness in every hollow of your being. Good write. At least you feel something.

Lady Labyrinth January 10, 2021 at 12:31 PM "There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul..." Lady Labyrinth January 11, 2021 at 12:06 PM https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/romancing_the_poet_1199027 Lady Labyrinth January 10, 2021 at 12:32 PM Are you in Purgatory again Schmidt...time to get out.