Paper Visions Flapped



Her eyes caught mine in the reflection I smashed in hate
while love laughed in the corner of apprehension's snarl,
sometimes the only person you can trust is yourself,
and with that thought I slashed the night's anguish into slips
of laughter while the moon captured my dead look's escape.

Perhaps tonight would be the night I died, perfect pain
would wave a farewell as my cold spirit crashed once more,
each life that I lived ended the same it seemed to me,
maybe this time would be the one where I did not burn,
I doubt it though, I'm so used to this now, there is no hope.

With a spark of regret cutting the fine swirled colours
in my eyes I left her on the floor of her own cruel
imagination and dived to my own pathetic
blue dream world where no one and no thing ever survived,
such a wonderful crazy world I fluttered inside.

The devil within me grinned as paper visions flapped
across the curled breath I set free to roam solemn graves,
it was only a matter of moments before lights
leapt into my screeched tracks of beautiful destruction,
I had the notion I would have longer this time round.

"Stop or we will shoot?" Was the cry that ran towards me,
but I could not care less if they did so continued
the journey of this reality's oblivion ~
and then I heard the click and a bullet connected.
"Goodbye for now!" I screamed as death took hold of my hand.
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Submitted on June 04, 2010

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Scheme XXXAX XXBXX AXXXX XXXCX BXCXX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,339
Words 260
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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