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Wombs and wounds (Free verse) by Caducus Love is a pall bearer
Carrying the dead to graves
Mine are beneath trees
By soil, merlot and half smoked Marlboroâs.
Love is a promise
Woven from scarlet.
Mine was pure
Worshipped by a Goddess
Who healed my heart
To destroy it.
Love is a word
Its only definition is
Who it takes
Who it leaves
Who it breaks and
Who grieves.
I am a griever
The once believer
the broken,
the unspoken.
But most of all
I am unlovable,
Complex.
Dark.
Lonesome.
Sad.
Angry,
And left to think of four children
Who will not be calling me Dad,
Bastards make the best Fathers
And I am love's bastard,
Wanting a womb to sleep in
to feel warmth again
from a woman.
Up the ladder:
First Confirmation
Down the ladder:
Return to Marrakech
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Posted: February 5, 2003 8:55 AM PST; Last modified: May 5, 2006 1:37 AM PDTWeighted score: 4.976287 Overall Rank: 8207 Comments:
Love is the epitome of unexpected.
Carry the living from fantasy to fraternity. Mine are beneath trees too, by merlot and a farm in the hills. Love is a new pair of shoes he bought me because "You are worth it." worshipped by a stallion man who healed my heart fron a dagger's blow. Love is a word it's definition is who gives it who leaves it who breaks it who grieves. I am a griever an unbeliever snatched to belief broken, but spoken clean unlovable become loved dark, lonesome, angry, sad taken, given mouth-to-mouth revived, a womb to sleep in to feel warmth again.
I'm not sure that you'd find Merlot beneath trees that often. Cigarettes, possibly and certainly soil, but Merlot? Unless you mean for it to represent blood...but it's quite unclear there.
Stanza two - 'worshipped by a goddess' bit makes it sound like you worshipped her too; at least, that's how I read it. Stanzas 3 and 4 - no problems. Final stanza...I'm not convinced by the list of adjectives, particularly as you describe yourself as complex but then list some fairly simple emotions (very compatible ones at that, for a complex character I'd have expected some contradictions there). 441 view(s)
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Oh wait, this must have been an edit of something else. Fair enough.