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The Widow's Song

By L. Lee Scott, published May 17, 2008
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Grief
Lies like a heavy blanket
Woven from pain,
Smothering the sleeper.

Wan sunlight
Bleaching out colors
Leaving in its wake
A faded sepia world.

Every gift
Comes with needling loss,
Every joy
Delineated by sorrow.

Each day like the last,
Like the next
A painful awakening
To a world unchanged.

 
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Nicely done.

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Posted on 05/24/2008 at 3:05:52 PM

 
So well done!

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Posted on 05/19/2008 at 8:05:57 AM

 
Very lovely!!!!!!!!

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Posted on 05/19/2008 at 2:05:09 AM

 
Puts everything in perspectives so neatly, you do!

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 10:05:54 PM

 
You described it so well, even though I wasn't a widow I was divorced and they feel the same, well divorce I have heard from someone who suffered both was actually worse. there is a certain dignity with death, and a sense of failure and seeing the other one going on living without you is a particular kind of hell. great poem

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 9:05:16 PM

 
Great poetry!

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 7:05:23 PM

 
Commendable.

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 6:05:26 PM

 
With each poem, I feel like I'm getting another piece of a particular story...lovely!

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 2:05:32 PM

 
Excellent poem. I was once asked by a woman in a Bed, Bath and Beyond if I wake up with a smile. Yeah right!

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 2:05:49 PM

 
Pain is halfed when shared. Thank You fer sharin'. Mizpah. ;-}}>

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 1:05:00 PM

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