She was tired
So goddamn battered
Bruised
Back against the wall
Doing it alone
From here
To eternity
Tired…..everybody said they liked it.
Calling out
Into the crushing
Emptiness
Of a life
Half lived
Fingernails torn
And
Bleeding
Hanging
From the crumbling
Cliff edge
She screamed
Into the
Dreadful
Silence…….everybody said they liked it
Days later
She died
In a cluttered house
With
Dark halls
And
Narrow walls
Her hungry animals
Pacing
A lonely vigil
Until
They
Found her ……everybody said they liked it
On her gravestone
At her request
Six simple words
“I told you I was tired”
People came with flowers
Drank to her memory
And
Deep down
In the cool dark ground
The flesh slipped free
From
Her
Beautiful bones……and everybody said they liked it.
MA. November, 2017.