Aftermath

by Tim Riley-Cancer - Not entered

You are gone.
I will chronicle you in coffee splotched journals
for my mind does tumble,
stumble
over the pot holes you have left there.
The sun rises through the branches of a naked tree.
Somehow,
it vanquishes the moon, and I think of how I allowed you to vanquish me-
Damn the way your frgrant hair lays!
Like a garlic shocked Dracula
hiding behind a ranting Renfield,
I shrink into a bottle and scream out a message to
you but, the cork keeps in the distress
call and keeps out the air.
My pilot light is waning and you seem not to care.
I tried to protect you like a flash frozen flower.
I saw you at the end of my fingertips, and I
scratched you, trying to snatch you 
out of harms way.
Stirring more trouble than ceasing,
I let you go
to roam alone.

Reason for writing:

    A very messy breakup.    

Birth sign: Not entered
Date created: 1998-11-24 18:40:45
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:40:43
Poem ID: 51154

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