Hidden within an imaginary darkness,
she cried a hundred kamikaze tears,
while silhouettes dressed as haughty laughter,
summed up her unbridled fears.
Boldly jutting, are the jagged lines of her insanity,
for they lay like broken parallelograms within her troubled mind.
Yet, quietly still, she acquiesced, to the legions of infirmity,
as they assailed her with assaults, from both forward and behind.
thus, leaving us nothing now, but an empty shell of her former self.
Oh what a pity this is to see, as she in her sadness comes forth to pay
For her days are as night as she Stares at the walls of liquid white
And she succumbs to the shadows that have come her way.
but still….and yet again……she…
against this backdrop of crippling white,
cries a hundred kamikaze tears.
J. Allen Wilson © 2004
Powerful expressions....
Peggy
You are the MASTER poet, dear friend.
You reach deep and pull at those heartstrings.
Most EXCELLENT!!!
Yes, I'm ready for that cup!:)
Yf, *Linda*
thus, leaving us nothing now, but an empty shell of her former self.
All this has power and intensity and I like it but I hope you wont mind one little word of thought, instead of the last word in the second line above, self, I might have put in "MIND," to kinda rhyme a bit better with "behind", but it is your poem and it is as always, a really great one from a great poet & friend, Peace thru the Write, Ed & Rufuz