When Death Is Survival Poem by Stan Petrovich

When Death Is Survival



The last of your family is
Gone. You are now alone to contemplate
Motionless sands or sere waves
In deep purple, crying oceans
To turn the tide of what could
Have been.
No family. No friends.
Just the bellyache of a vast hunger
For richness of thought,
For a dream of clear vision.

The rocks are one color alone.
You are one color alone as well.
Might as well join them.
There is no heaven or hell.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shadow Girl 22 October 2011

I never did believe the saying blood runs thicker than water..family gone...can't change that..friends are only gone if you push them away...drown them out. Heartfelt write.

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Dave Walker 22 October 2011

A sad but very beautiful poem. Great write. May i invite you to read my new poem called, Devil and the damned.

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Stan Petrovich

Stan Petrovich

Fort Riley, KS
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