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Kaitlin Curtice
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Death.

This is a poem

I didn’t want to write.

These are thoughts

I didn’t want

to acknowledge,

a pain I didn’t want to hold.

They were in a car wreck

yesterday,

all three of them,

and for a second

when I found out,

I imagined it—

what happens when

death calls and asks

for the lives we

aren’t yet ready to

let go of.

But I imagined it,

because it could

have happened.

They could be gone,

and everything

could have changed

on a simple Sunday

afternoon.

But, it didn’t.

Not yet.

So we hold each other close,

we dream on,

and we give thanks

for every single day

that is meant to be

ours.

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Steven Barbery
May 30·edited May 30Liked by Kaitlin Curtice

Death

you have been all around lately

children and teachers in a school

a one year old baby shot in Pittsburgh

my (former) father-in-law, that I dearly loved and respected, gone from a heart attack days ago.

those are the deaths I can barely take in over less than a week.

Death,

It is one thing to visit someone in advance years in their sleep

or surrounded by loved ones saying goodbye.

But you, death, are a bastard when

you take the young and the young at heart.

Sometimes, you are a blessing.

Other times you bring a stench

strong enough to smell and feel

that hangs thickly among us

for us to breathe in.

Are there two of you?

If there are two,

I can work with the good one.

walking along side as others greet

(prayerfully, one day me, too)

you at the end of long life's journey.

The bad one

I abhor.

I started writing poetry

to resist

and counter.

To create is

to stand up

in the face of death

and proclaim

life

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Diane
May 30Liked by Kaitlin Curtice

Death

I’m living alone for ten days right now

And I’ve been thinking

“this is what it will be like when mom’s gone”

And even though I have my cats, and my books, and my friends nearby

I can understand why loneliness leads to death

It’s an unwanted kind of solitude

When someone’s gone, it is

A blank space that can never been filled in again with the right color

Because that color no longer exists

It was a ‘limited edition’

I just want to finish the picture

Before the crayon runs out

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