Blackened body

A Poem by Gracious

This is a poem of revenge and one's own actions coming back to haunt them

My broken bones are sharp

My blood is poison

My blackened body invisible in the dark

My words, reflections

Of those you said

My blackened body invisible in the dark

My heart is heavy

Enough to shatter glass

My blackened body invisible in the dark

My skin is hot

As you have seared it

My blackened body invisible in the dark

My time is short

And all the better

My blackened body invisible in the dark

You lay asleep

Unaware of me

My blackened body invisible in the dark

My blade is sharp

From striking yours

My blackened body invisible in the dark

You cannot hear

My stealthy footsteps

My blackened body invisible in the dark

You may feel pain

Just as I have

Your blackened body invisible in the dark

-Gracious

© 2014 Gracious

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RachelRedstone

Your poetry is just so good!!!!!

Posted 10 Years Ago

10 Years Ago

O thank you so much :) I really appreciate that. Stay awesome!

MsJewel

I could feel the emotion in your words...the repetition of the line is quite effective and then changing it at the end gave it so much power. Wonderful writing!

:) Julie

Posted 10 Years Ago

10 Years Ago

thank you so much I'm really glad that it's coming across this way. stay awesome!

Andy East

feels like a song with a gospel choir hailing "my blackened body invisible in the dark". Escalating to a crescendo of emotion to a single falsetto singing Capella "your blackened body invisible in the dark", then to silence as the final word is whispered 'gracious'. Powerful stuff

Posted 10 Years Ago

10 Years Ago

thank you so much! I'm really glad that I'm getting these kinds of responses. stay awesome!

Glen Yumang Manese

Seems to develop into a chant of sort...as one goes about the lines of this verse...and the finale puts things into motion...in the way this unfolds...to the reader...