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How to Mourn You MAG

October 28, 2021
By lulu05 SILVER, Muscat, Other
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“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” - Lemony Snicket

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if there was a book

'How To Mourn You' 

in a 1,000 pages or less


I would read front to back 

till I could recite the pages

under my breath 


every time I see you 

I would find the proper words 

at the back of my throat


I miss you 

what happened 

I hope you’re ok

I hope you rot 


there’s a story you used 

to tell me when I was young

about a boy who could 

harness the sun 


you would lasso it for me 

and tell me to never let 

go off the evanescent light 


and I can see it now in your eyes 

as they get fainter with 

an emptiness that comes after 

all your anger is drained 

 

how do you mourn somebody

across the room

I hate you with the passion 

of a million suns 

© Alexandra F., Harbor Springs, MI

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