When People Die

[snaky_poet]

I write very good poems
when people die.
Grief pulls them out of me.

And if there is grief
there might as well be poems,
turning a terrible event
to some kind of good account.

But I’d rather
still have those friends
than all the poems I wrote them.

Comments

[snaky_poet]

Yes, you're right about the not suffering. Thank you. Penelope had suffered far more than enough.

[metahara]

thank you for sharing your words~ peace be still