Deathbed

Binding red ribbons
around silken syllables

Combing wisdom
from my eyelids

Stroking ashes
from my hair

psalms of our palms
sleeping in each pore

Meet me in death

Do not look
at my hands

Do not kiss
these opaque lips

They are
too old
to forgive

too young
to forget

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The red ribbon around syllables - marvelous!


 

 

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Thank you much

I really appreciate your feedback, ribbons around words

an image Ive been fascinated with