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Hallowed Husk

A Poem

By Reid ChristmannPublished about a year ago 1 min read
Hallowed Husk
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ho, hollowed husk with heavy hands,

humbly heaving, hoping

that holding heavy, hereditary heartaches

will help heal horrible harms

//

so, sunken soul with sorrowful stumps,

solemnly shouldering, surmising

that seizing sluggish, stolen sorrows

will soon soothe shameful sores

//

oh, otiose omnipresence with onerous occupance,

obligingly opperating, offering

that occupying an oppressive, owned onus

will opperate overhauling oblique offenses

//

lo, loathsome laborer with longing limbs,

lovingly lugging, looking

that lifting leery, languished lots

will lighten lessening littered lies

//

eh, echoes embodied with excessive embrace,

expediently expending, expecting

that effecting exigent, encompassing errors

will encourage easing erronious evils

//

my, melancholyic mortal with moping mittens,

meekly mourning, misting

that managing myopic, mopey maims

will moreso move meer misses

//

ahoy, aimless actuality with arduous articulations,

awkwardly aiming, anticipating

that anchoring ambitious, accustomed affairs

will assist aiding awful advents

//

um, unfulfilled unit with unmoving un-abandon,

unobtrusively upholding, undertaking

that underpinning uphill, undoubted unrests

will utilize unbending unacceptable upshots

//

yo, yawning you with yarded yokes,

yellow-ly yearning, yattering

that yanking yeasting, yare yawps

will yield youthening yammered yucks

//

dear, beaten body with pained palms

quietly working, wishing

that carrying costly, emotional burdens

will help fix the world's problems;

let go.

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About the Creator

Reid Christmann

Filmmaker | Designer | Composer | Creator

Work in videography and editing, novice screenwriter branching out into poetry and short stories. Check out my other work at reidchristmann.com

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