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Two Worlds
Maggots eating flesh
Body decaying
Insides rotting
Clothes decomposing
The dead conversing
Their whispers heard throughout
Speaking to anyone willing to listen
To those who are not afraid
Old life out of grasp
Unable to let go of the past
Trailing special prey
To feel purpose
Black skies
Dreary clouds
Follow those
Haunted by the deceased
Incompetent to rid themselves
Of the ghost
Of the human
Of the person they want back
Body decaying
Insides rotting
Clothes decomposing
The dead conversing
Their whispers heard throughout
Speaking to anyone willing to listen
To those who are not afraid
Old life out of grasp
Unable to let go of the past
Trailing special prey
To feel purpose
Black skies
Dreary clouds
Follow those
Haunted by the deceased
Incompetent to rid themselves
Of the ghost
Of the human
Of the person they want back
Published 6th Dec 2012
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6th Dec 2012 8:49pm
6th Dec 2012 10:47pm
7th Dec 2012 9:13am
When I first read this I wasn't positive of the exact direction you were taking with this prose. On a second examination I believe I think I began to follow the purpose of the poem itself...
"Two worlds"
We have the living and the dead. Although the existence of the dead is a finite they still seem to continue on, confined within a pulse of the living, despite the lack there of.
we are haunted by grievances, this much I took from this poem, and well I found it refreshingly blunt towards the end and title, I personally find a lack of relevance with the entirety of the poem in the beginning stanza.
7th Dec 2012 10:16am
When I started this poem these words popped into my head and began my story i believe that is what they do in this poem, creating the first image. it is also providing examples of the ways in which they are dead in reality but we question ourselves if they are dead spiritually and emotionally.
