Sad Death Poems

After El Cielo or Bust

I know time isn’t 
on my Mother’s side
for much longer

Her frail body like a delicate 
wine glass that has just tipped...

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Sometimes I Want to go Home

Sometimes the road seems long, so long;
As this dark world I roam.
I long to be through with this turbulent race,
And...

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What will it take?
For me to be born again
With no hair, soft scalp
Developing fingers, umbilical cord wrapped around my neck

The ultrasound lied to me
Told me...

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I've visited so many places before,
Searching for someone exactly like you;
It took me months of patience and will,
Then I finally found you that is true.

It...

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Ryan my son, when i visit you
I am glad to be so near
Ryan my son when I visit you
It hurts so bad to see you...

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In the dark I am alone
Without my wife, without my son
I wish to die but then I cry
I cry, cry and cry
Till the tears in...

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I thought that God had done with me, had found me wanting.
I was good enough for crumbs, but not for soup.
I did not think that...

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On that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only...

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Murder on a Hilltop!

In a far off place my Captain died;
Upon a distant hill.
He was murdered, beaten like a dog,
They exhibited their kill.

Blood ran on...

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The loneliest of lights, 
from the smallest of stars,   
comes on me tenderly,   
illuminating the pages 
scattered on the bed. ...

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Spurning holy matrimony
Gangs canceled the ceremony
   Poor Tony fell with a thud
   His face covered with blood

Maria arrived seconds too late
Pure...

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Desert Daughter

She had a daughter in the desert:

A daughter who lived near the mountains and palms
She loved to take beautiful photos of flowers and birds
Hike...

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The Great Woman that was hunted and slain,
by spirits of the past and extrapolar plains.
Taking on a curse so I would not be lame.
Yet here...

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I hear the raindrops plop like the sound of a slot unlocked.
I fear the passing dusking as the days of the year leave.

Time is going...

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Lank shimmery hair flows off her shoulders
Cascading aloft sweet midnight zephyr
Alone she sits perched on seaside boulders
Under somber moonlight where he'd left her

Night after night...

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A Pocket Full of Dreams

What do you do at the end of the day,
When you come to the end of the road?
When you lay down...

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Sing a sad song
To the dust in the air
That slowly fills my lungs
Turning them into an hourglass

Counting down the seconds
Until i lose my grip
On what...

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How will you cope when I'm dead and gone?
Will you be able to carry on?
With the empty space in the bed,
No one to warm your...

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One Thousand Goodbyes

Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on...

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True stories are often the saddest, so go to another poem if you 
are afraid of this one.
Seventy-five years ago a Mommy died leaving a...

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