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death to you
by Olivia Weinkeinto think suffocation can be romantic
i needed to keep you around so
i left you on my pillow
oh the silence of everything
but the rotting eventually becomes
too much
when i begin to smell you in the
air around me
then i will know
it is time to finally let you go.
03/12/2003 Posted on 03/12/2003
Copyright © 2024 Olivia Weinkein
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Melina Raven Maness Diebold on 03/12/03 at 07:57 PM Nice poem with a lovely morbid theme. Reminds me of Anne Rice's 'The Violin' or at least, the first few chapters. Blessings-Mina |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 03/17/03 at 01:50 AM Its always good to let go the past which starts infecting the moments alive and present. You have said this so beautifully. |
| Posted by Meghan Helmich on 09/11/08 at 08:35 PM it's that rotten smell and infection that i have so much trouble scrubbing away. it stays and stays. |
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