This is it -
Your life is now
The movement, the mercies
The tears on your cheek
You need to begin
Before you can end
Tanya Mills is a 50-year-old author from Ontario, Canada. Although she has been writing her whole life, her first poetry book, Unbroken, was not published until she was 45 years old. Her second book, Worthless: Poems Of Sadness and Reflection, is available at Amazon. She has also written Carter Marches In The Pride Parade and the haunting Family Scrapbook: One Family's Journey Through Time.
This is it -
Your life is now
The movement, the mercies
The tears on your cheek
You need to begin
Before you can end
You will succeed
You will succeed in killing me
Doctors, specialists
Telling me I am beyond help
Too much weight gain
From the pills that stop me
From going insane
That help to block
The pain of you
A heart attack?
Breath stopping in the night?
So many choices and
They have given up on me
You will succeed
You will succeed in killing me
Little Rose, why do you cry?
Falling petals at the end of the season
Dream of living forevermore
In a heart, in a hand
Something warm
Instead of the cold
Dying in the cold
Little Rose, stop your tears
You had your moment in the sun
Before your petals disappeared
Before you meant nothing to no one
Don't look at me Don't break me This ghost of a person You will grow to hate me Disappear from my life Stab me with your knife And...