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Spilling Ink

Death Takes No Shape

Death Takes No Shape

Apr 02, 2020

Death takes no shape

                                                            No form

As he steals away into the night

His bag full of bones

So light yet so heavy

The hollowed souls of boys and girls

The guilt upon his shoulders

                                                 That makes him waste

Wasted

                                                              Waist

                                                                                                           Curved, slighted

Soft but dead.

                                                 Death takes no shape

                                                                                           But should he choose one

                                                    It would be a bird

                                                      Free, and wise

Without the weight of his loves

                                                                                                                      Her lovers

Their children and family

And pets

                         And every once living breathing beating seething soul

                                                                                 Without the weight of the dead

That constricts his chest until he knows he shall combust

                                                Until he cannot breathe

Choking, drowning

                                                                                             Asphyxiation taking hold

Babes that never grow old

                                               The pain of thieving a life

Is the pain that death carries

As he slips in through the back door.

                                                                      The window she left open just a crack

                                                                                               The unlocked side door

Death falls apart each time

                                                  Falling to the ground

Before standing up

                                                                                               And taking another life.

                                                 For that is the trouble

Of a living

Breathing

Loving soul

                                            Tasked with the impossible

Named with pain.

                                                                              O death takes no shape nor form

                                            But should he choose one

It would be a final breath

A tear gliding down a cheek

For death knows that is the essence

Of life

                                                                                                                     Rain drops

                                                                                                                     Tear drops

Wind

Breath

                        The very things that connect many to the world

                      Are the same things that tear Death apart at night

They are not only the binding

The instrument of life

                                                                                         But the first signs of decay.

                                      Should Death choose a form

                                             It would be a laugh

                                                                                    Because that is the most alive

That Death could ever feel.

noahonha
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wow that took a long time to edit, but its definitely one of my favorite writing pieces

#poetry #love #poem #poet #transgender #lgbt #FtM_Trans

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