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  >> Static Item >> Poetry >> Romance/Love >> ID #1496474  |   Show DetailsPrinter Friendly Page Tell A Friend
The Arisen Corpse
Absent Love
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                                       The tomb reaches out with its touch,
                                       hand of the corpse on the shoulder.
                                       The past holds time within its clutch,
                                       grasping it, as we get older.
                                       Gripping fingers leave an imprint,
                                       trying to forget but didn’t.

                                       Arise o’ grave, of time we’re slave,
                                       haunted by spirits of the past.
                                       Roll the stone away from the cave,
                                       remove the silence that can’t last.
                                       Ancient times buried in gloom’s mind
                                       looking for the place hard to find.

                                       The place of peace and restful sleep
                                       may exist only behind stone.
                                       The place we sleep where we don’t weep
                                       and the flesh decays leaving bone.
                                       Fragments of death’s cold living touch
                                       confusing as such, held in clutch.

                                       Goodwill does not extend its hand,
                                       only the ghosts of memories.
                                       The hurts come first and there they stand,
                                       blown in with the stench on the breeze.
                                       Reek filling the nostrils with pain
                                       over the slain parts of the brain.

                                       Ghosts walking the halls in the head,
                                       apparitions carrying time
                                       between the dying and the dead,
                                       oozing the slime of heinous crime
                                       performed with wheezing through the lack
                                       giving us the chance to look back.

                                       Tormented by the pain of loss
                                       and buried in a deep cold crypt
                                       where life has lost all of its gloss
                                       from not understanding the script.
                                       The darkness of mind intertwined
                                       with the past that’s best left behind.
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