DEAD



To feel you grow the kicks the flutters
To hear your heartbeat make that beautiful song
9 months of carrying n a womb so safe but still so fragile .
The day you entered this world is the same day you left ..
The pain the tears the blackness that fell
Dead Roses

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This poem is about a stillborn birth thebtime that was ripped for a mother and her child ...and all they end up having is Dead flowers to bring to a grave they grieve

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Written on July 04, 2023

Submitted by sheenaboggs299 on July 04, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 264
Words 55
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

Sheena Boggs

I am just a lost gypsy soul ...I have faces so much death and pain in my life I tend to say that to live you must have witness death to understand. more…

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