#grave poems on Hello Poetry

N Jul 2019

Elegy

It is brutal
to have reached for
my trembling hand
and hold it

only to dust me off
back to my grave
without a goodbye
nor a burial

It is cruel
to have made me
believe I am one
with the livings

only to make my
second death
far more ******

O, tragedy indeed

#old #ex #elegy #abandoned #grave #goodbye #burial #cruel #death #tragedy

Michael R Burch Feb 2020

Thin Kin, for Skeletons at Halloween

Skeleton!
Tell us what you lack ...
the ability to love,
your flesh so slack?

Will we frighten you,
grown as pale & unsound ...
when we also haunt
the unhallowed ground?

Keywords/Tags: Halloween, skeleton, pale, haunt, grave, graveyard, unhallowed, ground, thin, kin, frighten, frightening, scary, horror, terror, slack, flesh, fleshless, bone, bony, unsound, haunting

#halloween #skeleton #pale #haunt #grave #graveyard #unhallowed #ground #thin #kin

Vale Luna Feb 2020

I Should Have Shot Twice

I had a dream that I shot myself in the head
I collapsed in the driveway
And stared straight ahead
With tangible astonishment
Or palpable dread
Is this what it’s like to be dead?
I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead
Why am I still thinking? I’m dead.

I imagined everyone before me who’s died
And questioned if their brains
Also raced beyond the grave
If being buried dead was no different
Than being buried alive
But before I made up my mind
I awoke in a hospital bed
Breathing and thinking -- not at all dead

I reached up and touched the hole in my head
Rethinking the seconds I thought I had died
I cried, I cried, I cried
“Why did this happen to me?” I cried.
Not because of my actions
But because I had survived.

#dream #suicide #gun #death #grave

Michael R Burch Feb 2020

Epitaph for a Palestinian Child

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

Originally published by Romantics Quarterly

"Epitaph for a Palestinian Child" has become one of my most popular poems on the Internet; the last time I checked with Google it appeared on over 400 web pages.

#child #epitaph #epigram #elegy #death #grave #headstone #funeral #lament #palestinian

Poetic T Feb 2020

The Resurrected

Shallow grave hung,
     Where the forgotten
Lyrically blessed suffocate,

     They just scream silently.

But I dug you up,
brushed you off,
          reserectted your carrear.

Now you be trying to hit
From behind with the *****
    That revived you last year

I dug you out,
         I can bury you deeper

you hear.

Don't think I didn't fill in that hole,
                      in-fact I dug it deeper
just in-case you thought that you
           climbed higher than the hole
                              you were dredged up.

RIP, you were exhumed no I embedded
       a ***** as your tombstone,

sorry I dug it a but to deep.

    But your vocal cords were severed

                                now enjoy your rest
and  scream silently you hear.

#resurrected #silently #deep #dredged #shallow #grave

Kobain Feb 2020

Go to sleep

Pieces of clothing scattered all over my bedroom floor,
This war with myself a war with many ******* casualties.
I’m going to hurt you like I always do so go get out the door,
Millions  hurt and maybe someday soon there will  be one dead.
Don’t know who’s going to win this war the monsters in my head,
Or  will  it  be  me  but  who is me no I just want to disappear and die.
But I’m too afraid of death no I’m just a coward no  I  am   just  a  fool,
I wish I could  just close my **** eyes and go to sleep for ******* ever.

I'm not your daughter no I'm not your daughter no I'm your wait...don't know who I am anymore,
Dig me a  grave but do me a favor save your tears see  sometimes I  feel like I’m already gone.
And I cut all ties to all those who care or I hope and wish that  they'll fix me some  *******  how,
But maybe I'm just this way and maybe I'm not meant to be  fixed  and maybe I was born to go.
Yeah  maybe I was  born to want to  die  maybe I was born to live a lie  maybe I’m afraid to  try,
Maybe I’m scared of life and of death and maybe I’m just terrified of every  single ******* thing.
I don’t want to be alive often wish that I was never born at all and all these things I’ll never say,
Don’t  want  you  to  see me in a different light and I don’t want to see your disappointed  eyes.

I’m  not  your  daughter no I’m not your *******  daughter  no  I’m your so—I’m someone  else,
Don’t  know  if you  know  me  you  should  but  you  don’t cause I’m hiding even  from myself.
Meaningless I  love  you’s are mumbled cause I don’t know how that feels anymore I’m numb, Everyone else are living their lives and then there’s me and I don’t know what I’m doing  ****!
You  say  that  it’s a choice and you say that I should choose to live but what if I don’t want to,
What if  I can’t choose and what if my mind and my body don’t agree  on who I ******* am?!?
And what if  I just feel  *******  lost and dead  and afraid   emotions all over the ******* place,
Tell  me  how  to  control this black hole within taking all hopes and all dreams a ******* way?

#depression #anxiety #death #grave

JDom Jan 2020

Awake yet dreaming

Is this a dream or nightmare
Dreaming for you to save me
Pull me out from this slumber
Put your hands on my chest and revive me
Sternum breaking
Resuscitation failing

These blankets feel like thorns
Pillows now rocks at the bottom of cliffs

Why do I feel so blind
I was more awake when I was dreaming

If this is a glimpse into the afterlife
My eyes are wide open
I haven’t been the same since

Put your hands deep inside me
Tell me my hearts still beating
That im not just bleeding
Bleeding out

Tell me my callused heart is normal
That we’re both the same
Use your touch to cauterize these wounds
Immolate my human form
To the voices heard beyond the void

Sever the strings that keep me from being who I’m meant to be

Is there anyone there
Answer my cries
Release me from the vastness of this madness

And with dreary eyes, my cracking spine
I’m taking back what’s mine
As I slowly watch your kingdom ******* fall

We have to adapt
Maybe I’m the only one
Unwilling to be one who just sits back in the dark, **** I'll take back what was mine
Broken reality falls down, crushing it’s weight on me, the world is my enemy am I the only one

Stuck in between; the mountains and the sea, yeah that’s where you’ll find me. At the bottom of the ocean or the top of the peak. Always positive or negative, no solace or peace

Look into my eyes, they're reflecting your fear from the past year
But don’t worry, this is not the end
No, this is not the end
Believe me or not, but this reality is not the end

Crawling to the calls beyond the grave
It’s life after this one, not the rest that I crave
My tomb is more to me than a bed
It’s a place where I may lay my weary head
Some say this place is full of dread
But I’ve always resonated more with the dead

Those who fear death are already dead
Those afraid of living will never survive
We’re all dying on the inside

I fail to cry yet I cry to feel
What a waste
What a disappointment
I’m sorry I was something you never appreciated

My soul will walk on the plane of plains
Mistakes made with regrets of my past
Counting down the days till I pass
I knew my happiness could never last
But in this new place emotions are non existent
This is what I’ve been waiting for
Given to me anew, my new existence

I listened to the voices that beckoned to me
Im finally free
To be with those on the other side of earth
This is my rebirth
Somewhere with souls like my own
A place I can finally call home

#death #soldier #dying #afterlife #save #dead #grave