Letters and Diary Poetry posted May 26, 2013 Chapters:  ...4 5 -6- 7 


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A poem begging of forgiveness

A chapter in the book Sewn Into the Sky

Tears of a Rose

by GregoryCody

How do you raise your voice to a rose?

Rush to accusations as if blaming the blue for a setting sun.
Misery sleeps inside my eyes, only to focus when apex hits;
Anger under pain shoots from my gaze like flaming swords—
Poor passersby quickly get blisters like pregnant cherries;
Barks bounce through the air against pleads that fires would fade.

Fearfully, I shut my covers and speak blindly, sadly absent beauty.
Apologies are trivial, if repeated like the chorus of a forever looping song.
Feet bound with a band of thorns stabbing,
Her legs stumble to a wobble—dreams of fleeing feet left months ago.

Staple a bloated tongue to the dripping ceiling; falling acid;
Seal poison lips with caramel paste, trapped shut behind taste ever sweet.
Hammered nails in fingernails caked with mud; an ache pumps my crying heart—
Cursing commands, barking replies, thunder boom screams—a naked ambiance.

Laughter leaps far like a leaking balloon when the descent falls atop my breath.
Angry melancholy bellows arias constantly within our midnight concerts;
chalk cinderblocks chomp down upon complaints hours late;
mere moments drift into regret as softly as smoke to a breeze.

Soon, memories bounce back, like rubber orbing attacks against a metal wall—
Words pop, splay, shotgun voice; digging in skin as steel screws into butter plywood.
Regret absolute as I feel my way to appreciation once more;
Amused despair vies to paralyze my climb; lining my spine with boulders.
Typically defeated, invisible I, the ant, have battled a sleeping hawk.

Hope: a bug to heaven's Goliath, silenced pain will giggle with her again.
Lift patient arms from the swamp under my rain collection; built filth—
Rinse the face of my heart,
Scrub ugly from her mud-splashed chest,
Pluck barbs from delicate arms
And embrace my immaculate destiny.

I beg to Hold the wet railing of our commitment; my carry through—
I vow to sing to you everyday, once more and always again ,
Perfectly in love through the voice of my life's gratitude.

Whispered kiss unto my rose...




When in pain and angry to the world it can sometimes be the ones you love most that feel it. A true regret...
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