Wilting Roses

By Echo

Our tears melt into a final kiss.
Feel the acid burn that consumes two damned souls.
Souls experienced with the intimate taste of a broken heart.

One final kiss,
a double suicide,
a terminal wish,
poison,
a bitter end-
we both willingly imbibe.

Together,
we gently place all that remains,
the ash,
the scars,
the memories,
shards of our broken hearts,
in a silk lined casket.
All stained in tears.
We disappear from one another.
Together forever-
yet never again.

I kneel by the grave with roses in hand.
Thorns pierce flesh as a pitiful attempt is made to bid farewell to love that never had a chance to thrive.
Liquid velvet drips onto a lonely stone that reads-
The remnants of an ill-fated love rest here for eternity.
Losing a love hurts.
Life with the loss of all love is tragic.

To be in your arms,
if only once more,
would be amongst the sweetest of dreams.
I miss you.
It wasn't meant to be.

A kiss for each rose,
unceremoniously scattered,
upon a lonely grave.

The last I hold a moment more.
Tear away the petals one by one.
He loves me.
He loves me not.
I miss you.
It wasn't meant to be.

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© 2005 Echo
Published on Friday, October 28, 2005.     Filed under: "Love" and "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: I feel as if you stole these words from a deeper place, somewhere buried in my heart. They resonate within me in the strangest fashion... Thank you for this, I will look up to you with keen eyes and open heart.

  • 10 Forty Three On Friday, March 30, 2012, 10 Forty Three (543)By person wrote:

    Now THAT's what I'm talking about! Beautiful but dark. Congratulations on making "Poem of the Day". You deserve it!

  • A former member wrote: I love love love this poem. It's an unfortunate kind of love though, because it is so painful what you speak of. This poem speaks exactly as I am feeling right now. Reading this, makes me want to argue with it though, because I do not want to accept the fact that "It wasn't meant to be." Thank you for this poem.

  • Mylissa On Wednesday, July 4, 2007, Mylissa (825)By person wrote:

    I just about missed out on this. I am happy I came back to it. You are something else...something beautifully woven. Perfect.

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, June 24, 2007, carlosjackal (2788)By person wrote:

    Fantastic tragic, beautifully expressed piece. Resonates. And that's something to be proud of. -Carl

  • Revisable Retina On Tuesday, June 19, 2007, Revisable Retina (81)By person wrote:

    my lord this is great... what you have here could make the strongest weaken and that my friend makes it a awsome write and a good writer way to go Echo this is sad but pure beauty....

  • A former member wrote: wow, Im awe-stuck, marvelously done

  • Sin On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, Sin (1135)By person wrote:

    as someone who lost someone once who meant a great deal to me this struck a blow right to my heart, the ache was so tangible and well written ~kristy ps this kinda left me with a romeo and juliet feel

  • Sin On Saturday, March 3, 2007, Sin (1135)By person wrote:

    yep this is still amazing

  • A former member wrote: an ache of sorrow pierces my heart... most exquisitely written. I wish I could still write like that.

  • A former member wrote: very.. very sad write but i did like it..Life with the loss of all love is tragic. i really liked that line

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