1.1 - I am unread
1.2 - those letters of condolence lying on the bed
1.3 - that ephemeral note initialed in red
1.4 - that formal invitation for the newly wed.
2.1 - A disturbed heart to caress
2.2 - with words unfit to address
2.3 - A tragic dusk beckons unless
2.4 - here distress succeeds success.
3.1 - Patience lost and passed around
3.2 - anxious fell the tragedy crown
3.3 - the coldest breeze brought it down
3.4 - A stranger to all upon its ground.
4.1 - A swindled tongue that once had said
4.2 - all that bleeds will soon be dead
4.3 - like the fading memory you choose to dread
4.4 - A feigning heart yet to be read.
5.1 - Those words of goodbye by despair led
5.2 - with an ugly truth left to confess
5.3 - that missive of hope which never turned to sound
5.4 - still unread.
May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 7:25 PM UTC
1.1 - I am unread
1.2 - those letters of condolence lying on the bed
1.3 - that ephemeral note initialed in red
1.4 - that formal invitation for the newly wed.
2.1 - A disturbed heart to caress
2.2 - with words unfit to address
2.3 - A tragic dusk beckons unless
2.4 - here distress succeeds success.
3.1 - Patience lost and passed around
3.2 - anxious fell the tragedy crown
3.3 - the coldest breeze brought it down
3.4 - A stranger to all upon its ground.
4.1 - A swindled tongue that once had said
4.2 - all that bleeds will soon be dead
4.3 - like the fading memory you choose to dread
4.4 - A feigning heart yet to be read.
5.1 - Those words of goodbye by despair led
5.2 - with an ugly truth left to confess
5.3 - that missive of hope which never turned to sound
5.4 - still unread.
alt. reading: 1
1.1 - 2.1 - 3.1 - 4.1 - 5.1
1.2 - 2.2 - 3.2 - 4.2 - 5.2
1.3 - 2.3 - 3.3 - 4.3 - 5.3
4.4 - 2.4 - 3.4 - 1.4 - 5.4
alt reading: 2
1.1 to 1.4 - 5.1
2.1 to 2.4 - 5.2
3.1 to 3.4 - 5.3
4.1 to 4.4 - 5.4
