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Secrets

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                         Death comes not for me,
                                    my love.
                          They come to cut out
                                              the evil of my life.
                             She comes to carve out
                                     all the bad self-image
                                           thoughts,
                                 all the negativity
                                                  I have for myself.
                               He comes to cut out
                                            the memories
                                    of all the men
                                              who made me
                                          a possession,
                                                 all the anger
                                                    for how I let it happen.
                                They come as one,
                                       to exorcise the blackness
                                             and leave me whole
                                                                to live again.
Number 21 in my second series and prompted by the October Miscellaneous prompt on :iconsimplypoetry: . Please check it out.

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Thank you for the response!

I really enjoyed the ambigiousity of this piece, and how accurately the title reflects this with the idea of a secret. The idea of death as rebirth and the juxtaposition between death seen as a negative thing and what in fact it can be interpreted as is very effective, and I loved how ‘death’ was your first word and ‘live again’ your last ones! That just added a certain something to your writing.
The way you change from ‘them’ to ‘he’ and ‘she’ and then have them as one is also brilliant, and in my opinion reflects the concept of death very well.
I loved the layout as well... so much can be expressed not only through words, but through how they’re placed and this is a perfect example of that.
I really can’t find anything to improve on, so keep up the excellent writing!