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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#1027317 added February 27, 2022 at 2:15pm
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In The Dark Jar #dark #death #selfworth #purpose
Life like window shopping coffins, knowing
I'm headed for a dark jar that a lone soul
will be purposed to clutch, feel the heft
and probably give a little shake, muttering
some final words for ash with more purpose
than this container I occupy beside you.

Roses could lay upon my mouth, coins
could straddle dull eyelids, but what purpose
for flesh freshly embalmed with a painted face
that could no more emote in an early afterlife
than the 100 years it will take for me to lay down
and give up this ghost to inhale a final breath.

The lights shining directly in my eyes, misdirect.
The dim light of a mortuary, maybe a few will reflect.
The chairs they stack and the hall swept keep
ready again to receive the lonely dead like me
who spent an entire life in futility trying to remember
what they came here for, as the sun rises again.


2.23.22

who knows me here, or anywhere, especially, after I'm gone?

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