Your Poetry Dot Com - Loneliness (goes to bed alone)

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alone, to bed
her hair smoothed back
with perfectly applied lipstick
She fingers her face in framed photographs
tracing youth, unable to abandon memories
Her hair smells of coconut
and fruit, falling over her shoulders
restless
Diamonds on her finger
so sadly small
tears captured, well worn
She doesn't touch his side of the bed
it is cold, her hands frightened
On days when he is gone
the walls seem to echo
the faintest beatings of her heart
She remembers his loving touch
but also his angry tones
the ones that made her cry
She studies her reflection
in the mirror
thinking how she resembles a flower bloomed,
soon to be wilted
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Loneliness (goes to bed alone)
Date: Sunday, 2nd August 2009 @ 05:13:05 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: Inevitable

She wears lingerie
alone, to bed
her hair smoothed back
with perfectly applied lipstick
She fingers her face in framed photographs
tracing youth, unable to abandon memories
Her hair smells of coconut
and fruit, falling over her shoulders
restless
Diamonds on her finger
so sadly small
tears captured, well worn
She doesn't touch his side of the bed
it is cold, her hands frightened
On days when he is gone
the walls seem to echo
the faintest beatings of her heart
She remembers his loving touch
but also his angry tones
the ones that made her cry
She studies her reflection
in the mirror
thinking how she resembles a flower bloomed,
soon to be wilted
dead beneath a lovers touch.

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