When I Heard The Sirens This Morning I Thought I Had Finally Done It.
I Thought I Had Rid The World Of Something So Very Putrid And Evil.
I rejoiced In Triumph For What I Had Done.
I Saw The Blood That Filled The Tub.
The Red Color That So Gracefully Stained The Porcelain Of Your Skin. I Was Struck in Aw At The Site.
The Site Of Your Eyes That Were Lolling Around In Your Head. Cataract ed Over Like Those Of An Old Women.
Your Lips Were As Perfect As Snow In The Desert And They Were As Blue As The Ocean On A Cold Winters Night.
Running My Thumb Across Your Cheeks I Think Back To The Beautiful Rose Color That Once Adorned And Flourished In Them.
I Place My Fingers On My Lips Then On Yours, And I Bid The Farwell. Then I Enter The Mortuary And I Ask To See You One Last Time, For A Final Farwell.
They Take Me Back And As They Begin To Pull The Sheets From Your Face.
I Cry Out In Anguish.
The Face Is Not Yours But Mine.
The Skin Has Been Fixed And The Blood Removed.
But As I Go To Touch The Skin I Awake.
A Cold Sweat Is Dripping From My Skin.
I Frantically Pull The Covers From Me.
Checking My Wrists I Find The So Many Scars From Before But Then As I Look Harder I See Two New Ones.
And I Look At My Face In The Mirror And See How Flush I Am.
I Touch My Cheek And Feel The Coldness Of It.
But As I Try To Get A Better Look At All Of This My Vision Blurs And My Eyes Cloud Over And I Can No Longer See What I Once Were And Just As Before I Hear The Sirens Screaming.
Author notes
Written March 29th, 2006
Option #3
A contest entry
- Happy birthday to me and you. by Wonderful Nobody.
300 points, ended July 21, 2006, 16 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Dark and Depressing #2 by XHollowXEyesX.
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this was a great write..your words were powerful, strong and emotional as well..this poem flowed really well keep writting your talented and good luck in the contest
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omg!!!! this is an amazing write!!the whole twist is absolutely unpredictable. I am speechless. The way it was set out I thought was going to take away from the depth and meaning of the write, but you managed to keep it so interesting and and enagagin with the readers. simply spectactular. A very sad twisted write.
awesome!!!
thanks for entering and goodlcuk
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Very good story, I like how you just changed the idea of the poem so dramticaaly while keeping the flow consistent.
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holy crap sam....this is amazing....wow...i'm totally speechless..I love how it goes from like killing someone to finding yourself dead....this is AMAZING...great job....major kudo's to you!!
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