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He sat and marvelled at an Auburn sky,. as one day comes another dies,. The day is gone We'll never get it back,. As one man cheers another cries,. Yet He possesses everything we lack,.
Cancer cells Ostracise years slowly. Maybe's become Pleads...pleads to Live. Eventual life battle, fails -no more given Time. Feeble attempts to Ignite life; concoctions Of many potions just jeers.
Time to wrap this night up, had a great time with my friends, into the night my drunken joy sends. Crossing the street on a red light, struck and killed in plain sight.
I sat so nervously to listen to the learned doctor speak A scruffy man, his suit all crumpled, not at all crisp or neat And then it came, The word formed on lips formed clumsily. No. He couldn't.
I thought I had known Death But so wrong was I I thought there was nothing to fear Until death stared me in the eye I thought I had known Death In my kitten's final sigh I thought I had known Death...
This is a sonnet I wrote for one of my classes. It lacks the iambic pentameter though. The lives of we mortals are measured in time The merciless meter of our human race.
After I finish watching the movie... #nightdwellers #beginningline The promises died in his icy white breath, The golden sun rose, Signaling his soon death. The man in the top hat turned up the heat.
#iftheworldendstomorrow If a truck came and ran me down Furious I'd be at my last words If I got held up at gunpoint and didn't survive Don't forget me afterwords If a freak virus got...
it's all a matter of smiling. of laughing. of trying. of soaring. of flying. of dying. laying to bed. laying at rest. when you can die knowing. you conquered life. doing your best.
Drowning to the bottom of the murky sea, I couldn't believe how this could be. Slowly disappearing into nothing, Even though I was definitely something.
They are sleeping. Sleeping under the snow. Snow like a blanket. Keeps them in the deep sleep. We waddle around them. Or more like, the gravestones. "15 years...". But that won't make me.
#nature. #season. I am the lonely leaf,. That falls solitary from the tree,. Alone and drifting to the ground,. For passers by to step on me,. I am no longer with my friends,.
I was home alone on that fateful day, When I began to go dizzy- I began to sway. I didn't know if the neighbours were out- So I started to call, I started to shout.
Someday We all get a ticket A ticket out of here To a place I'm unsure of A place I don't know where What's it like.
Innocent, lovable little thing, Oh the joy that you can bring, Forever you're the sign of spring, Frolicking in your dancing ring.
A caterpillar left its home and returned as a butterfly It had a déjà vu moment for a little while Surveying its ancient family's tree Then, it flew away to be wild and free It was lured by an...
A warm and gentle breeze caresses my face as I sit back and watch the sun as it disappears below the shimmering horizon.
You would have been Romeo, If your mother had her way, Which I think befits you nicely, If I'm allowed to say.
I remember my great grandmother, But I know none of the family before her. She passed away when she was one hundred and one, So many things she saw before her life was done.
For the Atheist.... You believe in science. Why not, this you can see. You voice your conviction. No reason to believe. You lost a loved one. Without given a "why".
Sitting by the surgery Hearing words like 'Clear!' and 'Stable!' I would save them all, my dear, If only I was able. I've saved a few, let others die, I've watched some praise and others cry.
And I looked into her sleeping face. Such beauty is unaccountable.
77 years old today, On Brighton Beach, Loving it, looking back On memories But, decided to throw My life away, Well, give it up, anyway Gift it to the Sea, Bottle of whiskey In one hand, Smoke in the...
With a book in hand You sit in the chair You open the book As you sit there "Sit down, Children.