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Red roses
And your broken smile
Don't go
Please stay here for a while

We'll talk
About how the world will end
The dark theories
And the forgotten thread

The broken glass
And the moon lighting our faces
Feel the moment
Feel it before we leave our traces

In a hundred years
And days I can't count
These silk robes will smell like us
But we won't be here -we won't be found
O Young, you're not afraid
you're fearless
You're not scared
you're a soldier
You're not a receiver
you're a donor.

O Young, you're not a student
you're a teacher
You're not a cheater
you're a lover
You're not asleep
you're awake.

O Young, you're not blamed
you're praised
You're not bored
you're excited
You're not hurt
you're cured.

O Young, you're not rude
you're kind
You're not sad
you're happy
You are not evil
you're good
You're not tired
you're active.

O Young, you're not crying
you're smiling
You're not violent
you are clam
You're not injured
you're intact

O Young, you're not a failure
you're successful
You're not the dark
you're the light
You're not lazy
you're careful.

O Young, you're not in pain
you're Joyful
You're not hateful
you're lovely
You're not upset
you're hopeful

Young, you're dream
of your family
and beloved to everyone
in this world
Young, you're a dawn
to the dark night
Truly, you're the favorite.
BE
I wish you blue sky
Good coffee , warm relations -
and hot mincemeat pie
German chocolate cake , deviled eggs
Oyster dressing and eggnog with a sprinkle of nutmeg
Pumpkin pie with a dapple of -
whipped cream
I wish you spiced apples and -
sweet holidays dreams* ...
Copyright November 22 , 2017 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
SUICIDE

When all is ill
And reason is still
Impulse yells ‘****’


EUTHANASIA
    
When life is woe
And the world says ‘go’
The grave beckons ‘come’
Young girls laugh
and cut the stems with fingernails
or small blunt scissors and set them in a vase
they gleam
rough cut flowers
husks by next month
after the water has dried
their stems touching crystal.

Weighty as feathers
desiccated while in bloom
these fossils
touched the moon
only a shadow
of their former selves
brides of the clouds
like statice, lavender, eucalyptus,
pearly everlasting
is nothing but lashes
claws of petal
they don’t care if they are hollow
if their throats are silent
wear iron smiles
ghost bloom
the very bitterness in them
is just a bough of hours
suitably decorating
the table.
©marywinslow2016 all right reserved. This is an old poem included in my collection of poems with Jeff Stier
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