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I Had Just Died MAG

November 22, 2012
By LifeOfChey SILVER, Louisville, Kentucky
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had just died.
Death had swept me off my feet
Leaving nothing but an empty soul.
Life had been a death itself
Slowly drawing my breath away from me.

What was once love,
Now had turned into a sort of palimpsest
Leaving only the erased markings of the past,
Allowing something new to take its place.

You tried so fiercely
To strike a vector in my path
Your fervent spirit glowed with warmth,
But the will to fight was grueling
And I became a sepulcher of love.

I had fallen into a masquerade of a
faded wardrobe
And the only feelings left
Had all become retrospective
Why further grope among the dry bones
of the past
When the end tastes so bittersweet?

© Julia K., Old Tappan, NJ

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LifeOfChey SILVER said...
on Aug. 19 2013 at 1:03 pm
LifeOfChey SILVER, Louisville, Kentucky
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Well thank you very much!
ChrisJ PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 8 2013 at 2:33 pm
ChrisJ PLATINUM, Rochester, New York
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"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

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And I had just been amazed reading this piece! Really, wonderful job.