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Nothing

Dangling from a silken thread
a finely woven spiders web
some claim nothing is for free
yet nothing has a crushing cost
the final tab for every loss
a toll the often goes unseen
it seems that the sharpest knives
hide themselves in loving eyes
rending cuts so clean and deep
another wound, another scar
another brutal Au Revoir
another storm leaves you lost at sea
clinging to a fraying rope
nothing stealing the last rays of hope
nothing is the farthest point south of free
The darkness has found its way back in again
darkness my familiar friend
until the time when nothing frees me

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Not actively editing

About the Author

Country/Region: new mexico

Favorite Poets: leonard cohen, charles bukowski, gary nicholson

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Comments

Geezer

Geezer

3 years 10 months ago

Nice stuff...

I know that you aren't actively editing, but I would try to re-work the last line to have the free and me switched around. ~ Geez.
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atorn

atorn

3 years 10 months ago

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Good point I think I like better ending on me instead of free

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c lynn brooks

3 years 10 months ago

Andrew

Sadness throughout this poem is all I see.. Well written but heartwrenching

atorn

atorn

3 years 10 months ago

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Love will be the death of me but by GOD I'll get some good poetry out of it