Submissions by Tinthedark
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Feb 2011 4:24am
16th Feb 2011 4:24am
Dead Goodbye
By: Tinthedark
I could hear the dogs.
The ones that search for cadavers.
They sniffed the top of my shallow grave.
Whimpering as if they felt the loss of me.
Men in uniform shuffled and spoke in muffled voices above me.
Small shovels chipped away at my dirt coffin.
Finally found.
Soon to be unearthed.
Never before so carefully touched.
Until you knelt beside me.
And brushed the dirt away from what was left of my crushed bones.
My Small rotting body,
Laid there in the fetal position.
The sun shone upon me,
In...
I could hear the dogs.
The ones that search for cadavers.
They sniffed the top of my shallow grave.
Whimpering as if they felt the loss of me.
Men in uniform shuffled and spoke in muffled voices above me.
Small shovels chipped away at my dirt coffin.
Finally found.
Soon to be unearthed.
Never before so carefully touched.
Until you knelt beside me.
And brushed the dirt away from what was left of my crushed bones.
My Small rotting body,
Laid there in the fetal position.
The sun shone upon me,
In...
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