A Shattered Requiem (in full)

by Michael Rowzee - Not entered

Footprints; softly planted on wet sand.  
Hand in hand, every print representing our 
union together down life's path.  
A sandcastle; delicately crafted together.  
Each tiny grain symbolic of our hopes and dreams.  
We lay by a hot, burning fire as night falls.  
Sheltered by a thick fog; we confide in each other.  
We hold close as the waves pound in the distance.  
Our bodies, inseparable.  
Our love, unquestionable.  
Fueled by a fire inside; our passion grows, 
every movement dedicated to each other.  
Where you end is where I begin.  
We drift off together; entrenched in a vice called love.  
Our little requiem.  
As many as the grains of sand; the sun has 
set and rose, but on this day the sun burned black; cold.  
I awake, only to find myself alone.  
I cry your name, only an echo replies.  
I begin to look around as our blanket of fog is 
uncovered by haunting wind.  
I hear the waves, but they sing a new song;  
they now sing of a bruised and darkened soul.  
The water; cold and black.  
The air; dead and heavy.  
Our sandcastle; smashed.  
Our footprints; erased by the black sea.  
The waves, once a song of passion now breed only sadness.  
The waves; they taunt me with her whispers.  
They torment me with her laughs.  
They kill me with her cries. 
They stab me relentlessly; over and over again.  
I look around.  
I am lost; my requiem shattered.  
As I cry out for my own death I think to myself,  
"What now then?"  

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Date created: 1996-11-23 10:05:01
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:39:08
Poem ID: 46090

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