I walked through as if the wind was chasing me 

	Unsure of my next move

I was hurrying to get away from your noise

	I didn't realize how far I would have to go 

Your memory had taken my body over 

	but my fears had won again

couldn't continue loving you

	I ended up inside a cemetery

thinking you wouldn't find me

	I knew you were too afraid

I pressed on

	knowing my every move was under scrutiny by you

I held your tears inside my hand

	held them to help me leave

but as I sit here on this bench

	inside this empty graveyard

I grieve

	because you made me leave

tears flow though I know you're right behind me

	I feel you touch my shoulder

as I look around to see your face

	the rain takes you away



as I            f a d e 



below this grave



03/09/2005
Posted on 03/09/2005
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Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 03/10/05 at 03:04 AM
Not bad. Text well reflective of the title. Dark but refreshingly different in its expression. 
Posted by Shonda Chrissonberry on 03/10/05 at 03:28 AM
the graveyard is my heart and I am buried under him ~ this is amazing ~ made me turn inside my memories of him(us) 
Posted by Paul Marino on 03/19/05 at 07:48 AM
that was great. so smooth with the stop and go, with the subtle rhyming. i would like to see, "inside this empty graveyard" be changed to, "inside this empty grave", but in the end the sentiments of this poem carry it through.
Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 03/19/05 at 02:34 PM
wonderfully worded and carried across.