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Daily Deviation

August 31, 2015
Rain by Ripplingwaves is a moving poem that is imagery rich, illustrating the beauty and sadness of the topic.
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She was bloated, swollen in her
Own melancholy moisture
Threadbare at her contours
Unravelled into gray woolen
Strings, too loose for her skin

And they drained off her shoulders
To pool in a waxy heap by her
Ivory heel-bones.

She was rounded by opaque
Moons, liquid apricity. The life
In her womb churned, awakening
From quiescence. Her being
Shuddered from the maelstrom within

And in a great wailing cry of woe
Her waters burst in a ferocious
Deluge, catharsis.

She roiled under each contraction
As unearthly poetry thundered from her
Throat, emblazoned with lightning. Her
Child is birthed, swaddled in her failing
Body, decrescendo heartbeat.

And as the babe breathed, the wind
Abandoned her shallow lungs,
Cadaver cumulus.
(Her lifeblood nourished the thirsting earth)

Edit 31-8-15:

  A Daily Deviation. I would like to thank my parents, my friends, my whitewashed walls, the dreams that never got caught and ya'll. *starts banging head against table and shrieking like a dying chicken* La la la la :happybounce: La la la la 
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Simultaneously beautiful and saddening. The cycle of life it's purest form.