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Funeral

Prompt: Thank you Emily

By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYPublished about a year ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read

This poem started out as a prompt that I was given on Miraquill. The prompt was to take a line from an Emily Dickinson's poem and make it the beginning of a new poem. And this is what I came up with.

I felt a funeral in my brain

Somber people gathered

All in black

So many tears

The TRUTH revealed

People DID Care!!

Shovels of dirt cover me.

It's raining soil on my casket

Mental Health

About the Creator

ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTY

Sam Harty is a poet of raw truth and quiet rebellion. Author of Lost Love Volumes I & II and The Lost Little Series, her work confronts heartbreak, trauma, and survival with fierce honesty and lyrical depth. Where to find me

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