Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Not A Metaphor

From the blackest
corner
of my room,
comes just
the faintest sigh,
a quiet exhalation.
A strange coldness
crawls over my skin
as I lay there,
the stench
of funeral flowers
encircling me.

He swore
that death
would not
ever separate
us.


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