Death will bring peace

A old true story.

  Death will bring peace.


A pretty and kind Angel sleeps alone.
She turns from love and accepted solitude.
 In the darkness of lonely nights.
 She wished for more hellos and less goodbyes.
 
Old men sitting in the back of the corner bar.
Sitting with friends drinking shots of whiskey.
 Old timer Joe toast to a woman left alone so long ago.
 
The woman who once held  love as her will to be alive.
 Tells her lovers now.
All I have to give is flesh and bones now.
 Her eyes empty and sad.
 Her hunger now is to feel a man inside her.
 Her last emotion.
 
Liars pay the Devil his due.
The lair of the storytellers and fool's is always filled with more sinners.
 
Old Joe tells me whiskey won't take your sadness away.
Those damn memories come back and leave you empty
and wishing for some kind of peace.
 
He takes my hand.
He whisper I broke a Angel heart.
Left her for dead.
Then my heart died too.

Karma is a fair judge.
Fools who wasted love will die alone and be in hell forever.
 
He smile and slapped my back.
He tells me it is Valentine day.
Go home to your wife.
Buy her flowers and tell her how much you need and love her.
Hell is too damn full already.
 
He takes my whiskey and drinks it.
He turns away.
 
A woman sit on her porch.
She dream she is young and beautiful again.
She wishes on the first star.
Please tell Joe I forgive him and I hope he OK.
 
Old Joe died from too much whiskey.
A few of us show up and say goodbye.
We knew he died of loneliness and a broken heart.

A solace woman sit with tears.
I sit with her.
I told her what Joe told us.
 
He would be waiting in Purgatory for the one's who wasted words and the gift of love.
She kiss my cheek and walks into the street.

I leave the funeral and go to my wife.
Tell her she is my will to be alive.
 My only sweet dream.


 
                                  Coyote
                                  14 Feb 1998

Author's Note

Better to be kind even in a good bye. Any mistakes I would be thankful for the help.

Reviews

[AYVID N]

You paint such a heartbreaking yet realistic picture of life. Every person sees their end in accordance with their deeds and their weaknesses and we are just grateful for moving on with the lessons learnt. But there are those who didn't deserve their fate. At the end, we are just grateful for our own life and those of our loved ones. It was great to read an old poem of your today, dear Coyote.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Divya for reading. I appreciate the comment my dear friend.

[Katie Louise Hughes]

I like how you told this story.. thanks for sharing :)

[Daniel Gardner]

Nicely written. Sometimes it seems like death is the only way you'll ever have peace, especially when things just keep haunting you over and over.... There's no escaping.

[Cheyenne]

Well i really dont know what to say. Its beautiful almost to much for words. You explain something everyone wawnts to hear in the last line especially girls and women but everone wants to hear it in some way. This is a powerful lovely poem

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

This is too wonderful of a write and message to see any mistakes, Coyote.
It is touching and broke my heart.
You wrote this so well and it seems as with all of your poems , wrote from the heart.. this is sad and beautiful.. yes, always be kind .. we never know..

Chloe

[Gomer LePoet]

nice story or should I say sad story. words unspoken leave too many broken hearts behind. a little grammatical cleanup would help this piece but not that much.

[blood red skies]

Very vivid. Superb writing.

[A.Lee]

Beautifully sad, but a good lesson a lot of us need to hear. Very nicely written.

[Dakota]

I almost felt like I was sitting in a pub in Dublin listening to someone sing this. It's great. You rocked it as usual my friend!

[miSS LEaf]

an excellent read.. i learnt so much, thank you :)
~L

[Star Wolf]

We all need a reason to live, I think, and are always looking for a reason. Very moving poem.