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Reencounter With The Devil

I want to punch the walls.

I want to feel the bugs crawl

Down from the cracks

Over my spine

 

And that sickening fit,

It swells up inside,

Until it spills over,

Screams and cries.

 

"I'll throw you to the curb!"

I yelled while tears

poured down my eyes.

"Just leave me.

Just let me die!"

 

"If you can't accept

All of my sweet love,

Then how could I marry

This torture and crime?"

 

And I chased him,

Down the dark road,

Until I couldn't even

See his pale neck.

 

"Good riddance!"

Then the rivers poured,

My heart bled,

And I fell down to my knees.

 

The Earth spun and

There in the middle of the road,

I wept, and I called

To the Heavens and to Hell.

 

"Bring me the love I need!

Lords knows! He can tell!

I've turned my back on you,

And the world for this hate."

 

The rot in my chest,

And all the pain that I felt,

Was lifted away,

There, I watched it melt.

 

It flew from my weeping eyes

And torn open heart.

The tar and rot danced

But I winced seeing it part.

 

That was the key

To my joy and my light.

Maybe one day, I hoped,

Would return my sweet knight.

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Written by
genevive-louise-sweeney
American
Published
Jun 29, 2010
Lines·Words
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Notes

There is no pattern the the rhyme really... Sorry for that. I felt that it was put where needed.

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