Come hold me here
now in the dark.
Warm this corpse
that is my living heart.
For though it beats
it cannot feel
slashed with word wounds
too deep to heal.
I’ve tried so hard
to seal them shut
but the blood it still seeps
through these stitches of catgut.
Please don’t turn away
from the ugliness you see,
look past the torn flesh
into the real me.
I hear funeral bells tolling
they think its too late
to save this poor wretch
from its terrible fate.
Quickly! Make haste now!
let your love be the start,
to the resurrection of my
corpse of a heart.
Living Dead Girl
We have all wandered through our dark places hoping to find someone who could reignite our candle and chase away the shadows.
We reveal much of ourselves through our art and our words, and so it must be said that this poem comes not from this time – a time where I am happy and loved – but a time from long ago.
billyboy, 5 months ago
Your poetry floats my boat, so I am installing my coffin permanently next to yours. Catgut. Mmmmmmmmmm
Alan Findlater, 5 months ago
I am gald you found the think or person who returned that feeling to you
Alan Findlater, 5 months ago
sorry i think i meant glad!!
billyboy, 5 months ago
I am actually more of a think than a person. And Alan, she didn`t actually find me… she`s known me since the beginning of time. Cool that you regognize soul bonding…
Rhana Griffin in reply to billyboy’s comment, 5 months ago
reply to comment 1
BB… Plenty of room in my cellar for your coffin. Just bring your own dirt and dont step on the teddies.
reply to comment 2
BB… (laughs) I have no response to that… except to maybe direct you here {{hugs}}
Rhana Griffin in reply to Alan Findlater’s comment, 5 months ago
reply to comment 1
Alan… you have no idea how happy I am that I found my “thinks” and my “persons” I’m scared of the dark… I need the light.
reply to comment 2
Alan… I see you too, suffer from dyslexic fingers ;)
Roy barry, 5 months ago
Rhana, so glad you escaped the dark place, what a soulful written work.
clarkey, 5 months ago
Beautifully written resurrection, Rhana. Glad you found the one to start your heart again and return feeling to it.
LocoCow, 5 months ago
Isn’t that how we all percieve ourself ugly and disfigured by our losses in thepast… Wishing we could turn into a cacconed inch worm waiting to transgress…
photos40, 5 months ago
LOVELY PIECE OF WORK. TIM BURTON -ISH IN IT MORBIDITY YET WARMING & LOVING AT THE END. BRAVO ON YET ANOTHER MASTERPIECE.!!!!!
demon, 5 months ago
Very dark work from a bubbly Bella…Hugggs xox
Joyce Dickens,..., 5 months ago
Beautifuly written and moving!
LisaG, 5 months ago
Dearest Bellababe,
I’m so happy that you are now in a place of feeling your heart full, embraced and alive….
XOXOXOX
Kristy Lee, 5 months ago
Yes…we have all been in those dark places where we are just begging for someone to light the way.
And how lucky are we now my dear friend, to know that if we do ever wander back into that cave of darkness, that we have each other to reach out and cling onto :)
Love you immensely.
Rhana Griffin in reply to Kristy Lee’s comment, 5 months ago
Kristy hunny… the word lucky doesnt even begin to describe how it feels to have you in my life. Love you so damn much!
Rhana Griffin in reply to Roy barry’s comment, 5 months ago
Roy this wasnt so much written as wrenched from the deepest darkest depths of my soul. Thankyou.
Rhana Griffin in reply to clarkey’s comment, 5 months ago
Clarkey, it wasnt so much a “one” but many “ones”. And each and every one of them brought a something different from their emotional medicine cabinets that they instinctively knew I needed to help me heal.
Rhana Griffin in reply to LocoCow’s comment, 5 months ago
Loco, yes we do perceive ourselves thus. But I know from personal experience that if you find the right people to hold that mirror up in front of you they can show you just how beautiful you really are.
Rhana Griffin in reply to photos40’s comment, 5 months ago
photos40 how wonderful that you got that morbity in this piece… its what I set out to achieve so thankyou!
Rhana Griffin in reply to demon’s comment, 5 months ago
Demon… thanks for the bandages {{hugs}}
Rhana Griffin in reply to LisaG’s comment, 5 months ago
Lovely Lisa… thanks for the emotional aspirin and the kisses on my forehead for the “owwies” XXXXX
LocoCow, 5 months ago
The BUTTERFLY CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!