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I?
I am kneeling;
Cold bath water
A lamb to the slaughter;
My eyes forced shut
My head tossing back & forth;
The weight of my hair
Knots when tumbled over my head
Dark nights.

I
See skies part
An intoxicating light
Each pink sky; an awakening dawn
Drinking myself to death
Haunted, glancing reflections bathroom taps,
Gasp, choke, drown sorrows,
Hearing the notes of my own beating heart
It fights.

I
Knock over the glass,
Sancerre douses the floor
Flooding sirens play, & dim the noise within
So grand;
Scream, a plea for death, last stand
Tears within
Porcelain hand held & gashes my skin
Hear me.

I
Must remain unspoken
A sinful hurricane drunk,
Standing in ferocious waves hitting empty shores,
Bodies in motion
The sky opens filling a roaming ocean,
A deep coldness resides
Your heart bleeds, your body stiffens, Mother Nature asserts, you abide,
Respecting she.

   © Sia Jane
Completely unedited and an attempt at referencing; Sylvia Plath - "Soliloquy Of The Solipsist"
http://allpoetry.com/Soliloquy-Of-The-Solipsist
 Nov 2014 Roisin Sullivan
L
Your body was a road map,
of all the places I'd never been to,
of all the places I wish I'd remember
and of all the places I wish I'd forget.

Each freckle was a monument.

Your inner arms were my block,
gang sign graffiti and the signature click of marble stones knocking against each other,
nostalgia.

But I could never tend enough gardens or build enough playgrounds to make your chest my home.
I've been thinking about you a lot lately
The day brings light
two lovers effortlessly
become one
As their incarcerated souls
deep below earth & soil
are merged in gothic
ghastly chambers.

Sunlight forces a subtle
glow from the life
once held
A life two lovers were at
war with above that ground
where children innocently
play pretend.

Ghosts & monsters
hunter & huntsman
they are hidden
From the evils to which
the night bestowed
what many would curse
cruel & beastly.

But, for these lovers
eternal life & eternal love
is a blessing
Those fangs they did free
you & I
for they gave us
infinity.

© Sia Jane
"Answering Back" to another's work
Based on the original poem by  Brandon Antonio Smith http://hellopoetry.com/brandon-antonio-smith/
Called  "Ode For Vampires"

http://hellopoetry.com/poem/953604/ode-for-vampires/
Something we call "Answering Back"
A voiced poetic reply to another's work.
Hope
You enjoy both ***
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