Friday, July 06, 2007

You did not speak

yet I was told

to keep myself

to myself

And I did

I hid deep beneath

creeping roses

pressed into the rich earthen loam

Wrap me in word flowers

fragile colored syllables

to lie amongst

Slumber,

no

But death

yes,

a lover’s embrace.

I could lie quietly

inhale your fragrance

to exhale eternity

Held in thrall

a poem for a winding sheet

3 comments:

burning moon said...

oh wow. This is just beautiful!

Bridget M. said...

This one is so quietly distraught. All I could picture was lying on a grave. Which is beautiful and desperate. Did you have an image in your head for this one?

Chris Never said...

Hey Moon,

thankyou *smile*, a little dark perhaps but there you have it :)
It has a certain stilted feel to it but I kinda like it, something different for me.


Hiya Bridget, the image was based around the winding sheet actually, and it evolved from that thought of a body wrapped in white linen, very creepy Victorian type of death image.