This Poem was Submitted By: Dwan L Dunning On Date: 2001-07-04 20:24:20 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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I skulk in the shadows,  My dark hungers yearning  To flee to the gallows  Of unnatural burning.  My teeth, sharp and dripping,  Cut lips used to bleeding  And the lives I've been sipping  Submit to my needing.  In memories I live,  In warm water, soothing,  As gentle hands give  My hair a soft smoothing.  A green china pitcher  Cascades a clear fall  Of love, closer, richer,  Enveloping and tall.  The fencing around me  Gives way as I feed;  My mind tries to be  The one voice I will heed.  It tells me I'm missing  The life I don't want;  I answer by kissing  The concrete I haunt.  Better to swallow  The blood and the gravel  Than pathetically follow  Behind judgment's gavel.  But the hands of my grandmother  Stay on me still,  And the love of another,  Though fading, feels real.

Copyright © July 2001 Dwan L Dunning

Additional Notes:
I have published this poem online at Poetsquill.com and Poemkingdom.com, under my penname of Duanna McCarthy.


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