" Finality "

This time its really over, I can't stand to
feel the pain...
I'll make the statement loud and clear and never
go back again.


Like out of the night the bearer came to tell his
tale of impending doom...
Its no matter, for had he not cried it out, the day would
have screamed out gloom!


I sat and listened with a smile, like a tree
rooted to the ground.
I knew three days earlier that something heavy
was coming down.


I sit in torrent wonder and wait for the call which
will inevietably come.
The outcome determines my life; not the total
but the sum.


Possibly, out of the ashes, as a Phoenix, I shall rise
to a dimension of peace.
For life as it would have been has already begun
to cease.

by
Mary S. Hymel
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