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Remembering the Future
By Stranger
These thoughts of you
Pulsing through my mind
Relentless temptations
To return
A hornets stinger
Pumping poison
Barbs digging deeper
Long after its death
A woman trying to coax
The poison out
With her lips
Is stung as well
I make a clumsy attempt with
An ornamental knife
At a physician's craft
I turn my eyes away
I stab blindly at the wound
The blood cools the pain
Now I can reach in with a finger
I feel for the sharpness
It is moving with the cunning of evolution
I feel bone
I rip at muscle and tendon
Until there is nothing left to hurt
Silence…
I remember to breathe
I clutch at the wound to slow the loss
I think of myself many years from now
A scar grows warm
I touch it lightly
Remembering
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Copyright 2003 Stranger
Published on Monday, May 12, 2003.
Filed under:
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Comments on "Remembering the Future"
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On Friday, April 29, 2005, Kinkypoptart
(555)
wrote:
Love the title. Love the Future. Really drew me in. Now I realize that not only was the title amazing, but the poem and poet are as well. ~*~tart~*~
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On Friday, March 5, 2004, Mistress Morbid
(405) wrote:
Makes me hurt, and concerned..
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On Monday, July 21, 2003, Jonas
(715) wrote:
cyclical, running in circles, trying to heal as the venom just works deeper and in the attempts at alleaveation(sp?) of the symptoms more blood is lost...
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On Monday, May 12, 2003, maddin foxxxy
(358) wrote:
such an exellent, captivating...touching ending...and the whole poem aswell.
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On Monday, May 12, 2003, blackdarkness
(227) wrote:
a lot of feeling in this poem...goodwrite
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