you were –
calling
a long time ago
and i –
never heard you
the words
you never said
fell upon
my deaf ears
soon became
my worst fears
soon became
real
you were –
falling
a long time ago
and i –
never caught you
that’s a sting
that lingers
i let you slip right
through my fingers
i let you slip right
right through my hands
you were –
dying inside
and needed to go
yet you’re still
so close
so near
and i –
just
watch you
take your time
About the Creator
Bren
"It's just a token of my extreme!" - Frank Zappa
"Cause it's all in the heat of the moment It's all in the pain!!!" - Devin Townsend
Centre Stage with the wonderful Heather Hubler
I'm writing it out not acting in doubt!
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Outstanding
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Compelling and original writing
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FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Comments (5)
Those last lines... this is a powerful piece, Brenton. Well made!
love the raw honesty of this
Loved this one. The rhythm and line breaks make this feel tentative and sad like a broken internal monologue. Amazing poetry!
Haunting and melancholy. I feel this one Brenton.
Well-wrought! The rhythm of the words captures the theme of something slipping away before us.