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As I tread this path with prickles & thorns, With fluttering butterflies in my gut, With blurry visions of vague horizons, Failed to notice, I was stuck in a rut. I reached a small pond that mirrored my face, I see roses, patches of red petals. I was enamored with it as I trace, The roses that formed a maze to my pulse. It was blood, I was dying painlessly. These thorns were shrapnel from a hand grenade, The feeling of butterflies was numbness, My blurred vision was from a ruptured vein, I fell flat, dying, laying on the grass, Please, my love, end me with a coup de grâce.
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Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 at 9:47 AM UTC
"Coup de Grâce"
As I tread this path with prickles & thorns, With fluttering butterflies in my gut, With blurry visions of vague horizons, Failed to notice, I was stuck in a rut. I reached a small pond that mirrored my face, I see roses, patches of red petals. I was enamored with it as I trace, The roses that formed a maze to my pulse. It was blood, I was dying painlessly. These thorns were shrapnel from a hand grenade, The feeling of butterflies was numbness, My blurred vision was from a ruptured vein, I fell flat, dying, laying on the grass, Please, my love, end me with a coup de grâce.
A sonnet of the final moments of dying painlessly, or slowly realizing reality.
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Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 at 9:47 AM UTC
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