Fate

sorenbarrett

Final gag of hope, as they cinch up the rope, feet twitch in the dock

A fall from grace, Hickok's ace, outlined with chalk

To sit on your hands, when the audience stands, because of doubt

To know, that it's only a show, when the dimming lights go out

How it seems, to wake from dreams, when a nightmare leaves

The relief, from plummeting grief, when your child cries and breaths

Blood to spill, graves to till, atrocity magnified

Words chill, answers kill, curiosity satisfied

When the deal, won't cover your meal, what's the price of a kiss?

Virtue gone, when maggots spawn, was Judas remiss?

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 10th, 2023 16:50
  • Comment from author about the poem: Wild Bill Hickock was supposedly shot to death holding two black aces and two black eights known as a dead man's hand after this.
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 5
  • Users favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek
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  • L. B. Mek

    Brilliant!
    (a young heart's red string
    or that life scorched, ashen black
    as one, we all seek
    our existential thread
    to unveil fate's machinations
    free us of that blank future's
    dread
    flip a choice, ink our worth
    with our laments and endeavours
    of pulsing need to belong, to mark
    our lives in posterity's sights)

    • sorenbarrett

      Thanks so much for the review and poetic words of comment L.B.



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