Black rose

Black rose

A Poem by Melinda F. Shepard

Wilting black rose of my heat
Cries out for your touch
Only to be shoved back into its icy hole
That lies within my chest.
No warmth doth penetrate that pit of blackness
Alone the rose withers and dies
Alone it fades from your glaring sight.

© 2008 Melinda F. Shepard


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Added on February 28, 2008

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Melinda F. Shepard
Melinda F. Shepard

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There is not much to tell. I am married, 30, have one child. I have been writing poems sense I was five years old. I have been trying to write a book but I can not seem to focus on it. Of late I seeme.. more..