If you leave, I stand here a ghost.
Are you listening?
Committed to only a lie.
Trying to make you turn around, you are so afraid of the world.
I can see your eyes breaking and changing shape.
It's useless. You are gone.
Telling me I never tried to save you, I clung
to your shirt-tails and you
became invisible.
Author notes
5. Guaranteed To Not Work is the prompt I chose.
Thank you for reading.
A contest entry
- 24 Hour PIF - by Bear - by Arkbear.
500 points, ended August 13, 2008, 15 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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interesting take on this prompt
to cling to the shirt tails and
still see them fade away.
Riftkin
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Not a fan of this genre.....however, there is such a pull of emotion here which I can not dismiss.....a powerful write.....good luck and God bless,
Bear ~
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