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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Comments on "Wilting Roses"
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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.
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On Friday, March 30, 2012, 10 Forty Three
(543) wrote:
Now THAT's what I'm talking about! Beautiful but dark. Congratulations on making "Poem of the Day". You deserve it!
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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.
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On Wednesday, July 4, 2007, Mylissa
(825) wrote:
I just about missed out on this. I am happy I came back to it. You are something else...something beautifully woven. Perfect.
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On Sunday, June 24, 2007, carlosjackal
(2788) wrote:
Fantastic tragic, beautifully expressed piece. Resonates. And that's something to be proud of. -Carl
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On Tuesday, June 19, 2007, Revisable Retina
(81) 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....
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A former member wrote:
wow, Im awe-stuck, marvelously done
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On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, Sin
(1135) 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
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On Saturday, March 3, 2007, Sin
(1135) wrote:
yep this is still amazing
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A former member wrote:
an ache of sorrow pierces my heart...
most exquisitely written. I wish I could still write like that.
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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