#pact
"For your body, I shall give
Beauty and body anew respired .
It shall shine from all your soul and heart
Take the shape that others desire.
All I ask in return,
A simple thing in all duress
You wear this body, fashioned for you
Fashioned of gore and my shadow glass."
Sep 26, 2024
Sep 26, 2024 at 10:52 AM UTC
i met another stranger tonight.
in the shadows of online chat rooms,
it’s been two hours and we’re convinced we’re in love.
inappropriate photos and
a suicide pact later,
we’ll never speak again.
though i’ll text the stranger in the morning
but it’ll be in the afternoon where they are.
Aug 14, 2024
Aug 14, 2024 at 8:11 PM UTC
I don’t know why
I still haven’t written
a single letter for you.
Maybe, it’s me getting tired
of having my raw feelings showing
and with you,
I don’t have to do it,
or maybe,
it’s the platonic relationship
that we have or had
that I cherished so much.
I just know
we always cared for each other
and I love that about us.
Sep 19, 2022
Sep 19, 2022 at 6:20 AM UTC
#*
Unleash the words
Truthful and mindful
But causing hurt
As you sow, so shall you reap
The fruits borne, instantaneously
To be consumed alone
Never left for posterity
A pact with the divine, as a child sealed
To be at peace*
🌿✨✨🌿
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020 at 7:06 PM UTC
Aflutter
by Michael R. Burch
"This rainbow is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh."—Yahweh
You are gentle now, and in your failing hour
how like the child you were, you seem again,
and smile as sadly as the girl
(age ten?)
who held the sparrow with the mangled wing
close to her heart.
It marveled at your power
but would not mend.
And so the world renews
old vows it seemed to make: false promises
spring whispers, as if nothing perishes
that does not resurrect to wilder hues
like rainbows’ eerie pacts we apprehend
but cannot fail to keep.
Now in your eyes
I see the end of life that only dies
and does not care for bright, translucent lies.
Are tears so precious? These few, let us spend
together, as before, then lay to rest
these sparrows’ hearts aflutter at each breast.
Published by The Lyric, Poetry Life & Times and The Eclectic Muse
NOTE: This is a poem about a couple committing suicide together. The “eerie pact” refers to a bible verse about the rainbow being a “covenant,” when the only covenant human beings can depend on is the original one that condemned us to suffer and die. That covenant is always kept perfectly. Keywords/Tags: Gentle, heart, flutter, aflutter, death, dying, suicide, euthanasia, pact, tears, hospice, hemlock, arsenic, rest in peace
Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020 at 3:42 AM UTC
Furious as possible,
He set out, avoiding each obstacle, seeking
An answer, stamping out all he would
That kept him from being able to
Be in question or be skeptical.
In the end if all went well,
She came down to him and let
him out of his minds cell.
He'd been rusting away in thought,
A lolling image sitting high in a loft.
Then but to any despite his anguish,
He couldn't explain how he got there.
Once he had a grand vision,
His life on the go, simple, peaceful
Without and within.
But there was this strange force that
Would never stop following him,
It was beyond a river, it 'let the fear in.'
Giving in to temptation was his new name.
She brought him vegetables on plate,
With a strange piece of meat that was quickly
Thrown away. But he ate it all in spite,
They turned him to the door, he said good,
Keep alive. You never know when they will
Come to take you away. A vision of a sort,
Is it worth taking a chance,
Setting wild, or rather to slow decay?
I curse that person angry as can be!
It is this version of which I can never
Be free. Yes I take nothing light,
Tossed aside without a chance because
He'd never fit in, he had nothing but lack.
Turning away, never to return or do
This ever again or be so, she and I made a pact.
One thing I know is that we're never going back...
Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020 at 3:15 AM UTC
Shaking hands
with the darkest
part of my thoughts
is like making
a pact with the devil
Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 2:51 PM UTC
You had said you'd never change
Yet you just pushed me away
From your very wide range
Did you, even once, think of me before the act
You knew I would be left shattered
Yet you choose to leave our only pact
When you were gone my heart had bled
I was broke till I learnt the true reason
I could never be your's to cherish and so you had fled
Everyone has to go, came the harsh reality live
I now knew the truth that
You are remembered only when you are no more alive
Don't you ever now try to come close
You would only be killed and wounded
Because I am just a threat that you now pose
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 1:28 AM UTC
.
Your face,
Louder than the moon,
Drowning me
Out into the long night,
Is so warm,
Like sun tendering heather.
Your voice,
Lifting me like a feather,
Into great sky
Weightless as I fall high,
Downy and rich,
As babe is swaddled nigh.
Your touch,
Sets my weary soul aflame
And I call out
Into the night carving names,
Writ in comets,
Yet to crash, that I am starlight.
Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 3:27 AM UTC
He offered me the earth and all in it
Riches and gold, power and fame
A place above kings, a throne to sit
Pleasures in life without no shame
In exchange for a soul
That I possess
You won't be a ghoul
Or demon possessed
Not nearly enough I turned and smiled
I wish not for fame
Nor money and power
If you give what I need
We have a deal
A man without desire
For the things on earth
What do you wish that I can't give
What do you have that most men wish
You're the Prince of Earth
And I'm satiable but
Not of the things in this world
Those things never last
Dec 5, 2016
Dec 5, 2016 at 4:18 AM UTC
Oh why, oh why do we all have to die?
Accident's and suicide is it really all that better on the other side?
Car crashes and burning buildings, now we are all dead;
Jumping from not so safe buildings and playing with not so toy guns;
Chalk outlines and splatters on the walls.
My oh my, what has happened to us all?
I see my death before I die with my very own eyes.
I'm just so done with watching my death a thousand different times on rewind.
And ever night I scream inside and in these dreams my skin is bleeding and my face is pale.
The water's flowing and sirens are going.
I'm hanging there with rope tied around my throat.
And in these dreams I replay a thousand times in my mind I always end up dying.
In reality I'm only sitting there crying.
A wish to come true after I'm through with high school because a pact was made to save my life,
But now I've been slowly dying.
Sep 15, 2016
Sep 15, 2016 at 7:46 PM UTC
*I don't know what to feel
I don't know how to act
This is all too real
I thought we had a pact*
Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 10:26 PM UTC
Trust is like a rubber band
It is thin but will stretch with you
When you trust in someone you both hold onto an end of the rubber band
The person who lets go hurts you
Leaving you alone and damaged
Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 1:52 AM UTC
that when you were
39
and i was
37
and we were
still single
we would marry each other
in that church over there
when we got together
we joked that we would be getting married
a lot earlier
than
expected
so why is it now
that the chimes of
"happily ever after"
seem so
far
away
Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 6:04 PM UTC
There should be three crosses on the side of the highway
three bite size graves all in a row
three rotting skeletons collecting dust
When I was young I made a suicide pact
with my two best friends
I woke up on my bedroom floor
stars crossing in front of my eyes
empty bottle of pills still in my hand
At their funerals I kept my mouth closed
Because there are things their mothers needn't know
That should have been a sign
I was meant to forever walk this world alone
Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM UTC