New Poetry for Writing & Reviews

in hive-111825 •  3 years ago 

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tonight is the silence

the dreams deferred a gold
at the end of that country mile
I've known from my youth

I cannot see in the dark

black air and blacker
shapes close in squelching
in the skidding muck

I dodge my yesterday and fear

tomorrow, the gold vista
beckoning, still, I'm sure
but I can't look until I escape

these monsters in the marsh

which would contend and wrestle
strained bodies against each
until one gives asunder

the breath goes fast

is it love we're making
or murder? the mud
embraces, swallows me

deep

in the dank earth
where the golden vista radiates
a warmth never lost

within and ever present


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