Shallow Grave
Blanketing the curse
of separation
Distance covers memory
—to sleep inside the pain
(Dramsleep: July, 2021)
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Categories:
shallow grave, pain,
Form: Free verse
Shallow Grave
How is it that you see me, when I stand in front of you?
Do you see my tenacity and what I’d do to see you through?
Do you view me as a cancer? rotten to the core.
Or maybe just a nuisance, for you, another chore?
Do I take up too much space, that you wish I’d just
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Categories:
shallow grave, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Shallow Grave
I cannot, will not, do not suffer fools gladly
especially those dolts that are not capable of recognising or realising
the plummeting depths of their own unfathomable foolishness!
It is believed that charity should begin at home, or so they say,
But, damn, when your every nerve is stretched – elasticated, broken – fragmented;
how?
How can I?
The level of superficiality
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Categories:
shallow grave, truth,
Form: Free verse
Shallow Grave
Shallow grave
Out of the clay
In new breath of life
Fire tested
Beneath this weeping willow my soul rested
Motionless as a statue
Forever stuck in place
Out of the tar pits
Dirty unclean by your eyes
Who will save me now?
My life molded out of clay
In vain I shaped my own image
Made my own ways
40 yrs in the desert
Thirsty for a
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Categories:
shallow grave, death, emotions, journey, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Shallow Grave
Her pain at ease, her voice a breeze,
She’s gone but never far from you.
The shallow gravitation, she pulls you toward her rest.
Her hand outstretched, grasping to the sky,
Knelt by the grave, you release the pain bottled within,
The grief, the depression, the anger you feel,
One and all pour forth over the soul that is lost.
Her grasping
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Categories:
shallow grave, death, depression, hope,
Form: Free verse
Shallow Grave
the darkness and confusion lifts
I do not bring the rain, which you embrace
but the sun briefly, into a cold sky
as I feel my way through the fog
into the realms of your reality
I lay fantasy aside
covering it with Irish lace
and burying it in a shallow grave
as your heart's freedom sprouts wings
and flies away into the night
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Categories:
shallow grave, introspection
Form: Free verse
Shallow Grave
unimaginable terror gripped me when she fell ill
a fear that caused all else in my life to still
words cannot describe the dread that I felt
so for the first time in my life, upon the ground I knelt
in such fear that her soul would leave
I prayed to a God in whom I don't believe
I asked why
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Categories:
shallow grave, deathgod, me, fear, god,
Form: I do not know?