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Until the Sun Rises Red

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I feel it again...
It's the pain that engulfs
and keeps all my daydreams
asleep on the shelf

I had shaken it off
with the rise of the sun
but it comes back, again
to the dark, where it's from

The grief that will come
in the thick of the night,
constricts all the air
right out of my lungs.

It creeps up the stairs
where the corners are bare
and fills them with ghosts
of a yesterday, gone

I hear the old weeping
and the sounds of goodbye
that comes while I'm sleeping,
and leaves me to cry

I feel the same dread
at the foot of my bed
And grief lingers with me
until a sun rises red


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Inspired by the contest: "
The Pain In The Night"
Sponsor: Tammy Reams
3/8/15

angstgriefnightsleepfree verse

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