Wiped Away❤️🩹💛
(Warning: mentions suicide, hints of self harm, may be a sensitive topic. If it is, please don’t read.)
To a soldier in the Vietnam War
Death
Is a repetitive
Redundant
Alliteration
That went out of style
Years ago
To a couple
Living in Paris
In a small apartment
Right by the Eiffel Tower
Death
Is
A monster made of shattered hearts
Waiting there
Like a book waiting to be opened
To a little boy
Safe in his mama’s embrace
With so much to dream
And so much to wonder
And so much to learn
Death is
A question whisked away
A grizzly bear’s hunger quenched
An upset baby soothed
To a doctor, working 24 hours
Chaos, disease, and loss everywhere
Every day
Death is
A heart bleeding but forced to scar
And it is
The emptiness behind
Closed eyes
To that girl at the edge of the bridge
Feet dangling like a loose screw
Needing to be hammered again
Death is
Something her family
Or friends or teachers
Would never understand
Just like her
Messed up mind
Will never be understood
To the broken hearted widow
Whose husband got stolen by cancer
Who now lies awake past 3 AM
Feeling nothing but grief
Death is
A slap given by a firm hand
A disease given false treatment
A punishment with no purpose
An angry scream left on read
To the old lady
sitting in the rocking chair
In her little cottage in a small town
Death is
A peaceful ending
To an old folktale
That will forever be passed on
And a soft blanket
Wrapped around her
Weakening soul
To me
Death is
A worry
A fear
A broken memory
Embedded with good ones
A sad song
Played at low volume
On repeat
And a little tear
Hidden in the rim of my eyes
Soon to be wiped away❤️🩹
Sincerely,
Caralia🫶🏼
This poem wasnt really structured or organized. I just kind of let it run wild here! This was kind of a sensitive topic to write about, especially to go back and read over, so that’s why I focused mord on the emotion than thr structure. It was hard, but I thought I should try💛
You are all amazing 🌻