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Jagged thorns around the neck

Suffocating river, drying out muddy Mississippi

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Jagged thorns around the neck
Photo by Jennifer Shishmanian on Unsplash

silver thorns around my neck

Pieces of the muddy bosom bloody

Mississippi in my eyes,

My Bloodlines lie in the muddy waters

I’m choking on the tide.

Dark silver moon wings cling to my chest

Cling to my neck

And won’t let the river flow out of my lips

That muddy mess of life

It lies stagnant in my belly,

It lies in my heart,

Crying out like Pocahontas

When her mother died

In spirit, and her own heart violently reborn(Rebecca)

But my sunshine dust, my crying stream,

My dear space Moon-Milk Eyes Dream,

Is being taken from me,

So close but a million miles away

And though

my mirror mask shows smiles

Behind it,

Is a million thorns slowly choking my muddy river into death.

sad poetry

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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