POEM STARTER
Inspired by Reagan Stanton
Write a poem about decay.
Normally associated with death and disease, decay is also vital in nature for the next generation of life. What perspective will you take?
You Saved Me
Your heart was my lifeline, a constant beating drum,
leading me away, your life force song like a siren’s,
I follow you, I worship you, I want you, I need you,
I throw away everything I knew of my life before you,
Nothing can matter without you,
I thought I was living before I met you,
But really I was just a mould of another being, another body,
Another life, just like everyone else, another copy,
Another version of all that was,
I was dead when you found me, a rotting corpse of failed dreams,
Failed moments, but you rose me from my ashes,
You washed away the decay,
You brought me back when no one else would,
You saved me, you made me anew.