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In Your Coffin - Poem

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In Your Coffin

 

In agony, I blame my loathing heart,

For the bitterness;

 I corrupted everything beautiful that I shared with you;

I mourn, on this morning cold,

With the frost biting at my stinging eyes,

For I cannot cry, it was my fault,

That I lost the one thing that made me beautiful,

In rays of sunshine through my darkened skies,

I wish you were here in my arms

But you aren’t, for the plague of the souls caught up to you,

The bile in your throat as I held you close,

I watched the blood drip on the floor

from your mouth that cried for release;

I’ve yet to clean it up.

Your body betrayed you,

And the warmth I once felt now cold

And my fingertips numb.

They made you beautiful as you lie in your coffin,

As my fingers brush your waxen face,

To wipe away subsided tears,

And aching hearts,

for I’ll never find another like you.

In class, we had to do a poetry project, consisting of 5 poems, each with a theme based off another poem. For example, this was the "Mourning Dirge" I had to write to the theme of sorrow and loss which came from the poem "Funeral Blues" by W H Auden [link] This poem that I wrote is basically about a pessimistic person who lost the one person that made them happy and they're beating themself up over their death, saying it was their fault they died, even though it wasn't. No, this wasn't based off true events that happened in my life.
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SummerKittyNya's avatar
I stumbled across this poem, and I can honestly say you are an incredible poet! The poem is wonderful, and I love every word!