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Dead Bodies and Dead Flowers Smell Pretty Much The Same (No One Can Escape Complete Decomposition)After my mother died, my room was filled with roses. When the flowers died, my room was filled with their sweet, rotten stench for weeks on end; it sunk into my pores and into my DNA and years later, I still smell like dead roses. / My sister confuses this smell with dead lilies. / A bouquet of red roses was placed atop my mother’s coffin as it lowered six

@taylor-st-onge31

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Empty SpaceA fragile shell of what once was, / decimated beyond comprehension. / Shards of a old life slipping away,

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VoicesWhen great aunt Maggie passed away years ago, the one thing I really missed was her angelic voice. / The swaggering, sing-song lilt of the mid-Derry accent was as sweet as the confections she used to pass out to us as kids: / The inflection, the intonation, and the slight lisp she brought to it was so gloriously unique but was never heard again.

@sean-m-o-kane22

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OblivionDrowning in waters of storm / I flail desperately to keep my head / above the glimmering

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Salt MinesMy sad is copper sulfate, / A blue shriek in my sternum, / A pressure frame inside me,

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Metrologywhat is the measure of sorrow / is there a standard unit / against which we may rule

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Soggy SightWith soggy sight and leaden heart / Path is hard to navigate / Stumbling on snakes slithering underfoot

@AmandaKayBurke40

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FlowersI was put to rest on Monday / It was the day after I took my final breath, / And two days since I saw flowers.

@Thepoetwholived15

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Mad at GodI'm mad at God / I've never been mad at him before / Always understanding and patient

@Shewantsthesun32

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it's different nowit was much / heavier than I expected. / that cherry-wood box,

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Greiving processMy fractured dreams, / A kiss, a cry, a greive, / Another relative splinters into moonlight

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A pane of glassThe story of two lives, / intertwined with eternity. / She his bride,

@Notyourdhimsukatta13

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Some PeopleSome people see light in me / Fire inside that I don't see / Burning bulb of a spirit sweet

@AmandaKayBurke24

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Happy For AwhileIn dreams I see your face again / Always makes me smile / Wish I didn't have to wake up

@AmandaKayBurke4

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Bring it..Meatballs / And close calls / He can never seem

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empty silencethese past two years have been empty / bottomless, like nothing will ever see light / a canyon of separation, so much space in-between us I've lost you

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Beautiful NightmareI was buried in this dirt, / Leaving you behind. / Sad, torn, and begging

@hopeless-wonderland32

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Love Turns To GriefA poet once said: / grief is the overflowing of love. / I didn't believe her then.

@Whogivesafuck19

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In which every poem becomes about youSince you died i've felt you, / Hanging around me, placing yourself into my poems. / They might not see you there but I do,

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UntitledR. I. P. poi, / They said. / I wasn't sure what that meant.

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LiberosisMy dear, / Me. / Thrumming underneath.

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Silent LambSilent and incomprehensable / Unestablished justification / And inconsistant affection

@william-mclaughlin14

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Suicide is so hard to understandwhy did you die? / why did you make me cry? / why is your blood splattered on the wall?

@amanda-woolley19

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