STORY STARTER
Submitted by Ellipsis
'…and all they could do was cry.'
Write a short story that ends with this as the final line.
The Day You Died.
It was the day you died,
And I begged for you back,
With every tear I cried,
Close my eyes, fade to black.
You lie, just a body,
Nothing more, nothing less,
Cold like a corpse, rotting,
Choking me with great stress.
It’s a bullet to my heart,
Down falls my esteem,
Left my soul torn apart,
Lost my spirits, my gleam.
And I want to forget you—
Remove you from my mind,
Yet my lips still turn blue;
Your frostbite is unkind.
I still struggle to hold back
The agony in my eyes,
The warmth in your being lacked,
Though that is not a surprise.
I mourned you with no rest
Since the day that you died,
Like many of your grave’s guests,
When all they could do was cry.
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Quick poem! I have been busy so yeah. And I’ve been reading (that never happens but Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has my heart rn)
And I might leave daily prompt or take a long break again because I fell off on here a lot 😭 my poems are doing better on my tumblr so maybe it isn’t my writing, but yeah