A Valentine in Pain

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A dream of hidden death, 

Embedded in her flowers –

Dripping; drenched in nectar tears

Now the dream of dying soul; 

Confined, a trembling heart is

Squeezing out the ember years 

And in her dream of youth, 

Abounding buttocks writhe, 

Acting out the careless dares 

But the dream of hideous beauty: 

Self-delusion, begging fears

Evolving from an agonising birth, her

Blacker days eclipsing; draining worth

‘So ugly living calls to die –

Forever in the dreams I cry! ’

Erotic debt; a laughing lie

Were done for her – 

A blade for sure! 

The dreams to cure! 

A calming sigh…

And in a smile of pain 

She bled and waned

Her cold pathetic bye 

- Mark R Slaughter (2010)

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