Dark poem.
I was just in that mood.
Mostly because of the tense issue. But I think I hit 110 words exactly. Small consolation for some sub-par writing.
Other valiant souls have tried this prompt here.
Sigh...
We are bound together forever
by the cord that once connected us.
When you fall, I fall.
Your pain is my pain.
And it screams silently inside my heart.
I am exhausted from the effort of wanting to save you…
…depleted by my inability to let you go.
Drained dry by fear and imagination
By memory and projection
I pace the floor at night
I’m a deer caught in the headlights…
Of your addiction.
Reading the scrawled words in the back of my notebook
surprised me. I thought I had known
suffering. You’ve been gone almost five years… and now I finally
understood the phrase, ‘a deer in the headlights’.
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Sub-par? Not hardly. If this is about who I think it is, I can understand why you wrote it, too.
wonderfully written .... such a dark topic ...
HUGS!
I don't consider that poem sub-par at all. Anyone who has lived with heartbreak of addiction can relate. I know.
I think it's perfect. :)
This is Sunday, and I called you yesterday but no one was home. I'll try to call again tonight. We need to talk.
xoxo
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