No Return From Death

When love eludes you again and again......................................

No Return from Death

A dreary dirge

hangs in the fugue

of the dreich day

as my soul forgets

that it once was nourished.

My optimism starved

by those who offered

hope only to steal

those dreams with

soft ethereal hands;

leaving the cold

to penetrate through

these thin rags of belief,

that I, a beggar for love,

had scavenged from

heaven.

The frost invades my core

now, leaving me numb,

afraid and alone,

feeling the empty howl

of the north wind’s breath

upon my rotting corpse.

 

23/09/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

A wonderful, difficult journey, with a beautiful frosty metaphor throughout. I don't like it, but the grey suits you.:)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha! now is that a compliment to a dour Scot? Thanks 'M'

[Lyn Anderson]

yes, put some red back on would ya?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Would that be Simply Red?

[Lyn Anderson]

Shades of Red, remember? You read it, way back in the day.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I feel this piece...I had the idealism and optimism of the sixties...it's long gone now...

there is only poetry that reminisces of that time...that north wind is getting so so cold.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Jacob perhaps we should start a self help group for 'jilted' men lol!

[Frieda P]

Sounds like someone is stuck in this funeral march mode....a bitter ode, killer ending, literally. Sad, albeit beautifully pen'd as always.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

One too many hits with a snake!

[Frieda P]

Funny stuff, coming from the snake charmer himself lol

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ok clever cloggs, without using Google or any other search engine which movie is 'One too many hits with a snake' from and which character said it?

[Frieda P]

You're not the Genie, you're just punch drunk!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You looked that up!

[Frieda P]

Oh clever cloggs this!