by dawn's grey light fading night <br />still waxen body ghosts waits... <br />shade when will you need spent <br />in clay broken rent husk release? <br /> <br />thou art not an aging mannequin fashion <br />sense dust lost in display shop window... <br />vacant gaze staring once handsome gone <br />soon must rest long upon another pillow? <br /> <br />face memory dances a familiar sight <br />yet not; death sudden altered sting pain bite; <br />unique soul essence trapped before flight? <br /> <br />soul essence gone dissipating fading leaving <br />behind broken; body mask once wore worn grieving; <br />without spirit animated soul is leaving outer casing?<br /><br />Terence G. Craddock (afterglows echoes of starlight)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/death-sprung-sudden-bitter-sting/
