Zombie Love

Zombie Love,
I watched you die.
I mourned your loss
With vivid dreams.
Six good feet
Of coldest logic
Hold you down
And muffle screams.

I watch the spot and hold
My shotgun tightly to my chest.
There is no second chance, my love.
Death is for the best.
So if you dare to rear your
Rotting carcass from the ground,
I'll shoot on sight.

Sometimes what's lost should not be found.

Conflict by JDarnell 

Once She Swore She Could Not

Once she swore she could not live without him!
Would not, could not, blended all the same.
Hardest was when could and would divided;
With that fateful breaking came the pain.

Time can't touch the part of her still weeping,
Though she doesn't notice every day.
Her heart is safely back within her keeping,
But unlike love, pain never goes away.

Gold Teardrop by Anne Marie Zylberman

There is beauty in the broken things, but broken things are not the point.

Ashamed To Feel The Ache

Ashamed to feel the ache of love, I rage,

For love is not returned with equal due.

I grasp at dreams and fill this sodden page,

But hide when rational mind strides into view.

I know that this is foolishness to feel.

I know that he is weak and self-absorbed.

I know that I need someone to be real,

Who'll love in every deed as well as word.

But take this heart away, what is there left?

A girl who shoots on sight before she'll fall.

I have to follow this love to its rest

If I'm to follow any love at all.

Dark Things

She stared the dark thing in the face and felt that she had found a friend.

She walked into its thick embrace and never came back out again.

So pay attention as you go.  The dark things are not far behind.

If you pause and say hello, you never know what you may find.

by Kim YunHee

Suspended In Belief

I tell them all that I am not waiting,
But I am always waiting;
Every second suspended in belief.
Every second another fall.

Allegorical Figure by Léon Jean Basile Perrault

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