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Bomb in Reverse

Those guns were a lullaby to the world you left behind.

“Life’s too short if you ask for mercy. Because dying never ends,” you said

Like a whisper too late

We're all bombs in reverse

than can be seen from outer space

 

The world is a firing gun--

"My pain is my defiance. It's no longer a scar," you said

close to death,

The riot ate us alive

And I believed you.

I really did.

Everyone's holding onto the world

like it was a grenade tied to their veins

Voices, tiny earthquakes,

all their hopes and fears that might send the sky to blow

It was left to burn

in slow-motion riddles.

a long winding road of the torn up lives that were left behind

I felt your sound

Like a whisper too late

"Your heart is eternal as the sky--even as you feel it breaking."

My tears falling wind chimes -- they left a presence in the air

And I believed you.

I believed you.

I really did

When your voice was the last bomb

that I ever felt.

In the instant I knew

My soul broke the sound barrier

And I was home

in the fire

I swore that I must've heard

"Madness is the god."

"Sanity is a lie."

"Love is the truth."

That only the fire

could ever find.

Things that only death

could ever speak of.

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Written by
kiersten-cosgrove
American
Published
May 23, 2013
Lines·Words
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A sketched poem, trying someone new

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