This Poem was Submitted By: Cara-Mae D. Hackett On Date: 2000-08-11 00:57:02 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Dying on the Vine

The web of lies is waiting ever so patiently to entrap a victim suffocating and sticky mummifying you with layer after layer of untruths and half-truths and self-taught delusions almost impossible to dispel but your far-fetched hopes encased in rose-coloured glass begin to fade Fairy-tales do not come true a quarter century of yearning girlhood dreams ripening to womanhood dying on the vine never to be realized Awaiting a sign a hint of a future path perhaps there is no future only this a plain dirt path leading into the sunset barren and poorly kept barely enough room for the clumsy feet of one woman no man to accompany her no sticky-fingered angel-faced child to sweeten the journey with a plaintive "Love you, Mummy" Covering parched lips from the onslaught of dust striding onwards despondent and alone into nothingness

Copyright © August 2000 Cara-Mae D. Hackett

Additional Notes:
Written during a time where I had given up all hope of happiness.


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