You Killed Me Poem by Emma Kessler

You Killed Me

Rating: 4.3


Hot eyes
Burning salt
Dried on my skin
Constantly replenished
Falling like raindrops
With ease, then hesitation
Before
Letting go

My body
Hands shaking slightly
Not believing
Unwilling to except the inevitable
Warm with anticipation
Cool with shock
Limp from pain
Administered internally

You killed me
Untouched
Visibly unharmed
You killed me
With words
Not actions
With sound
You killed me

I never saw you
Never knew you
You weren't there
I just
Read the words
And the feelings
Hidden
Given only to a loving reader

The words
The sounds
The pictures brought on
By the feelings
Painted by emotion
With paints of words
A brush of ideas
On a canvas of paper

Silently
You killed me
Without violence
You killed me
Internally
You killed me
With words
You killed me

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Amy Marie 13 January 2012

I love the way shortness and catchiness of the first vereses followed by the repetition...that makes it very powerful :)

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Lindbergh Hughes 24 March 2010

'..Painted by emotion With paints of words A brush of ideas On a canvas of paper.'A great, a wonderful poem! ! ! I think it's the second lyric poem that I've read from Emma.To express, to describe some feelings that we bring inside us it's not an easy skill, mainly in the poetic language.To change material things into ideas like 'a dark cold room, a winter' into 'loneliness', 'a spring' into 'a beautiful love', 'a broken mirror' into 'a broken heart' it requires from the poet to work on his imagination.The soft and beautiful way the poetry has got in itself, it distinguishes the poetry from another styles of writting like ficction, essay, drama and so on.Again, Emma, bit by bit, is defining her own way in the poetry.

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Andreas Rubin 16 March 2010

I admire this fantastic poem.

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Brenda Arroyo 16 March 2010

I am amazed and stunned at the depth and meaning of which this poem has crept into my heart. 'You killed me Untouched Visibly unharmed You killed me With words Not actions With sound You killed me' Absolutely brilliant. I enjoyed every word of your poem.

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