Submissions by PermanentInk
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have been writing for a little over a decade now. Focused on lyricism for the majority of that time. I am TheInkwell from RM, and Ink from AOB if you are familiar with those circles.
DARK POEM
Published
29th Apr 2013 1:50am
29th Apr 2013 1:50am
The Suicide
There was no calm before it happened.
That's the sign they tell you to look out for in school, a
sudden calm that follows the sadness.
Like the jolt of a sailboat, following a
gust of wind.
No,
if calm followed sadness,
like politics after school
shootings,
then calm would be thunder
and depression would be light.
But we never
make that association.
So it seems to me, they've got it all wrong.
There were no signs.
And we certainly cannot make sense of this now.
We stared at her wounds for as...
That's the sign they tell you to look out for in school, a
sudden calm that follows the sadness.
Like the jolt of a sailboat, following a
gust of wind.
No,
if calm followed sadness,
like politics after school
shootings,
then calm would be thunder
and depression would be light.
But we never
make that association.
So it seems to me, they've got it all wrong.
There were no signs.
And we certainly cannot make sense of this now.
We stared at her wounds for as...
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