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What’s One More Cancelled Visit to a Man in his Grave?
Is my suitcase big enough?
Once clothes come out, will grief fit?
or will memories fill every crevice?
Packing boxes of a life once lived,
packing a suitcase of a life still living.
What selfishness, what obsession.
But it's time now, the train always coming,
and the impending journey, always one yet to come.
But who’s it for?
What would you say?
If this journey's too hard to take,
Sunday 29th August 2021 2:37 am
Ophelia
How peaceful an ending
for Ophelia,
as the corpse of her insanity
floated amongst the lilly pads
and flower petals
forever entangling her in
vines of poetic demise.
Why can’t all broken hearts die this beautifully.
Sunday 29th August 2021 2:21 am
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