In your fist, snared,
my life
choked
till the end of breath
but
trapped, though it were,
my love escaped.
The pin pricks
of lost days
smuggled themselves
into this moment.
In the blink of an eye
scars reappeared
as the soul lay beneath the rocks.
Trampled. Writhing. Trapped.
And then forever
Still. Still. Death.
Reminded me of Browning! Beautifully frightening, unstable and chaotic.
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ReplyDeleteA breathless and gasping stream of consciousness moment!
ReplyDeletePainful yet eerily cool!
ReplyDeleteThe pathos poignantly underscored by the "fragmentedness". Beautiful!
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