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To have, your etheral, heavenly, final-shot;
miss.
At, an, otherworldly, eternal-beckoning,
bliss.
Only, to; foolishly, unforgettably, flounder,
in, the all-pervading,
mist.
Is, an, outstretched, grasping,
hand, with, a broken;
wrist.

To hold, someone, you love, for, the final;
time.
As, they, slowly, succumb, to, a flattened-
line.
Hardens, a heart, in, outpoured,
ugly, concreting-grief’s;
bind.
And, makes, what, was, a good-heart,
egregious; emboldened, italicised, and; underlined.

To yearn, for, richer-knowledge, of, the spirit;
realm.
By, riding, bullet-trains, with, the devil, at, the
helm.
Creates, caustic, combusting, bonfires,
and, kindling, of, your inner
Elm.
As, the sorried, buffeting, scattered-ashes,
become, ubiquitously, able, to;
overwhelm.

To trap, for poorer, thirsting-souls, by, wanton;
ignorance.
Builds, bars, cages, prisons, upon, a land, of,
deliverance.
And, causes, a drought, in, paradise‘s,
bountiful, and, oasis-like,
wilderness.
While, lonesome-tears, provide, the lubricant.
For, apathy, begetting;
indifference.

In sickness, mortality, becomes, wizened;
pictures.
Screwed-up, and, crumpled, like, the pages, from,
scriptures.
An inability, to find, the balance, between,
apothecary, and, apocalyptic,
mixtures.
Pluming-smoke, in, rapturous-potions,
obliterates, all, longstanding;
fixtures.

And, in health, the prism’s, guiding-lights, are;
overlooked.
Like, the wise-words, of, holiness, spoken, by, a;
crook.
When, the crook, of, a neck, is, swinging, like,
a pendulum, from, a fisherman’s,
hook.
Welfare, cast, didn’t-fare-well, and, the farewell note,
quivers, on delivery, as, it’s read, and;
shook.

© poormansdreams

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