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Jun 2013
..and it hurts
when the blades flash
and blood spurts.
See the face
watch the glass
then smash the mirror
watch as cracking up you'll pass
into the seething red hot boiling mass of indecisions.

Incising with precision and then it's too late
any hate you ever had against yourself
your mum or dad is dripping then it's gone.

Who said life goes on?
it does maybe
you cannot,did not,would not see
the sympathy that wrote itself upon the stone
when laid at rest
three miles from home
in St. Marys churchyard and you thought life was so hard
it's harder now
but not for you.you flew away
leaving family to pray and cry.

...and the awfulness of wondering why or what they said
that brought you to this
dead end
full stop
final resting place.

But you know different,don't you dear?
there's no resting place for you in here.
Like there,
you're just a square peg in a rounded hole
another lost and weary soul.

..and you're not going anyway to anywhere
no floating through the air like you read in some ghostly story book
no angels come to tuck you in
you're on your own again
but this times it's for keeps.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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