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Emi

The night was quite dark

The stars concealed by clouds

The sweet song of the skylark

So oddly out of place

 

What’s going on?

What is that light shining from the sky?

Oh I certainly cannot wait until dawn…

Tonight I feel something quite odd

 

The wind blew wildly

The trees bended and twisted

Upon the ground their leaves piled

Rigid with frost and ice and death

 

What is that coming down to me?

An all-black figure with wings…

Flying ever so gracefully…

Oh how frightened I am!

 

The pouring rain turned to hail

The air grew much colder

The crisp wind began to horribly wail

The lightning flashed and the thunder boomed

 

He’s come closer now

For I can now tell he’s a he…

Perhaps he’s come closer than should be allowed

I can now see his blood-stained sickle

 

Then out through the wind came a shrill scream

The sound of death and the dying

The sound of hopelessness and lost dreams

As the thunder roared louder

 

He took me by my freezing neck

Stopping me in mid-scream

On the ground dropped a fleck

Of the blood dripping off his blade

 

And there was dead silence

The wind slow dyed down

The trees did not sway with such violence

And the lightning moved away

 

My eyelids grew heavy

I felt something cold move through

“Please, I’m not ready!”

And my soul poured out of my eyes

And it was carried up, up, up

 

  • Author: Emi (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 11th, 2011 12:50
  • Category: Sad
  • Views: 31
  • Users favorite of this poem: Shyam, Cheeky Missy
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  • Shyam

    very vivid.

    • Emi

      Awww thank you! 🙂

    • Cheeky Missy

      Marvelous! What an eerie, chilling, horrifying depiction of dying! Wow. Excellent!!! Awful, though for the frightening consideration. Well-written. This is one of your best pieces, seems to me and yet so horrifying. Bravo.

      • Emi

        Thank you lots!!!

      • Anna

        *Can`t speak, using emoticon to convey emotion -- (*o*)

        • Emi

          Haha thanks. 🙂 This was one of my.... darker poems.



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