Mummy

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Mummy

Tears sting my eyes
as upon my cheeks they fall
Wrenching and ripping
is my heart
as i hear your spirit call
Pounding bare
fast on concrete
Peeling and scraping
the skin of my feet
I enter the woods
branches scratch at my face
The red blood runs
but i keep up the pace
Clothes are all torn
battered and bloody
I found you the same
tore up and muddy
You were not breathing
when i knelt at your side
I cried out your name
I thought you had died
You coughed up some blood
when i pressed on your tummy
then you looked at me
and smiled and said,
‘You made it mummy’

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kdarcy commented on Mummy

07-21-2010

Real or not, good descriptions of drama and urgency. A mothers panic for her child, well done

SavVySam commented on Mummy

01-18-2010

You've got me wondering, if this is an actual account or not, either way, nice work! You could feel the panic! ~10

Drivingczar commented on Mummy

01-09-2010

An excellent work created from either a reality/surreal state or even a combination of the two. Only the poet knows for sure. Spellbinding!

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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