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Dearly Departed: Gone But Not Forgotten
Dearly departed, you are missing from us
It has been an odd, lonely ten-years
Times fade into nothingness
But grief stays, slays at the soul, silently, skilfully, slicing at self, ever so…slow…ly
It festered in a dark, cold, corridor corner, in a closed case, a passage of pain, infinite.
2004, Infamous for:
flashbacks of a free-fall into a black hole, a dark, bottomless pit.
Followed by fake philosophy ‒ preacher, never reached her ‒ at the pulpit
My pre-adolescent soul caught fire
The evils of the world had me lit.
Should I call on the divine that’s higher?
Third-degree burns from the urns, I’m in the mines of hell and the devil’s a liar.
Mind-morose from all the tearless mourning
‒ and it was a moon-cast morning
I was excited for the excursion; travelling my passion
Barely breathing, I was gasping
About the same time my aunt passed living for past tense
Rest in Peace
Declared deceased,
she ceased to exist
in the…
