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A Failure To I think about how I died. a knife wound so large my soul fell out upon the North Dakota snow cold and white a pale youthful skin the inevitable blood whose red stains his pulling me fast away from the malling crowd the unthinkables – his limping away into misery back into the hell from which he crawled just months ago chains clanking, the jail cell the courtroom scene the search for me your rumors and theories when you find my remains I will be far away, watching you probe my wounds, count the holes, wipe your tears from my frozen face, thaw my carcass slowly so as to preserve evidence, ultimately decide that I'm indeed the one who has been sought, the one you didn’t want to find. I think about why I died. About the How you try to deny. That you taught me to be safe. That you strive to make sure before you release them. About the parking lot who cannot speak that knows Who and When and How. About the light of lamps tall above, About the flight of birds in the night, About the end of my too short life, About the songs I would sing And the air we’d share Had I lived to breathe. And I think about why we failed. About how he failed. And as they place me in my tomb, I wonder just who failed whom, more. |
This Poem was Critiqued By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2004-01-03 15:00:51
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.33333
Failure To
communicate with the universal fire of eros? Perhaps - but those of us living simply and without
that kind of passion envy him and earnestly applaud you
a knife wound so large
my soul fell out [brilliant thought]upon
the North Dakota
snow cold and white
a pale youthful skin
the inevitable blood
whose red stains
his pulling me fast away
from the malling [the old Madding crowd - now in the mall? -clever and cleverer]
And the air we’d share
Had I lived to breathe.
ahhhhh.......lost love ...shades of R and J
--but as Oscar observed - we do all kill the thing we love.
And I think about why we failed.
About how he failed.
And as they place me in my tomb,
I wonder just who failed whom,
more.
right...we always wonder that ...brilliant as usual