Poem:Bleeding Out

Bleeding Out


Afterwards
When it was all done

Weakness pulsated
Beating in time
With the struggle of aching limbs

Everything else emotional was
Driven back to be unremembered
In some niche of the mind
For the moment.

Now the body lies
In grievance
On the writhing bed

It bleeds out
What it doesn't need anymore
Helpless
Unable to control this
In the end.


2002