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Dulcet Tones

Brittle bones and dulcet tones

Of monitors beeping their last.

In a sunny room with a sinless floor

White sheets of purest perfection

Cover the only blemish

In view of Eden.

A casket of flesh hangs in tranquility

Over the hollow structure of mud and man.

Angels blink and do not see

The raging lacerations cradling

And caressing the final pieces of life

In her.

Her visage drapes to silence the mind

And will never be held again.

The winter of her absence is already felt

As her hands drift away like smoke.

Never took more than was hers,

Now this takes all that ever touched her.

The payment for a well-lived life is love

Hers wandering after the dulcet tones

Do cease.

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Written by
arlene-bozich
Published
Jul 18, 2012
Lines·Words
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For Grandpa. Still going even after the tones have ceased.

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