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Mercy

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

You crawl along the edge of a cliffduring the cusp of winterit's cold claws scraping away the deepest desiresthat feed your heart and soulbut even the..

Palette

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

Your heart is an antique vesselshipwrecked and marooned on a shelf in the atticalongside an old pair of bootsas well as a series of pictures capturing..

Thoughts

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

Thoughts of you draw out like swordsin the hush of nightcutting through time and space as though they are ribbonsslashing through realmsand severing r..

Until

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

Love is unrequitedLove is severed like an umbilical cordGoodbye strikes like a dagger, carving the heart into halvesThe heart weeps tears of bloodwhil..

Hold Onto The Dawn

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

Your heart achesand bleedswhen you are aloneIt has come to thisThe walls around you have grown darker, narrowerspeaking their own silent hopeless mess..

Butterfly Wings

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

A butterfly doesn't flutter it's wings with grace and freedomonce it takes flight amid a world besieged with blackness and thornIt emerges as a caterp..

Loss

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

Loss,true loss,is a chasm opening spontaneously and painfullywhile those who have fallen from lifefall through holes in our hearts that know no bottom..

The Flame

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

When inspirations are as dry as hollow snowflakesfloating through your fingersand the muse hibernates in an igloo of idlenessa glacial sense of doubta..

Sacrifice

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

Like a bridge beneath the flow of an aggressive waterfalla woman's water breaks the cyclebefore science has even finished monitoring the wombA mother ..

When & Where

A Poem by Brian D. Roth

When clouds coagulate like powdery mushroomsclashing with dashes of silvery graythe day resembles an entourage of coins that had not been freshly mint..