Goodbye, my almost friends

12/31/1969 - 19:00

Goodbye, my almost friends

Emily Diehl

Undergraduate/Print Journalism

The feelings come back

As I write. Horror as I

Obsess with it

Books handle my tarnish

Characters cling to the ink

But friends,

They question

A lingering sylph.

Slipping through the waves

To rotate and find myself

In water, of laser shafts,

Ice.

It blocks my way

Drifts me to a current.

A blue one-forty

Debates my rescue.

Unsettled and lethal,

This moonless evening

Where 54 flush blocks once

Functioned the coffee table.

One hand beams a clever

Move, the other waits,

Waits. A piece loosens.

The tower plunges.

The immortal sword

denies penetration,

the beams pile, splint, burn.

What I have to give is decaying,

So you’re here; but I…I…I’m

Depressed, contaminated, and haunted,

Goodbye 

my almost friends.



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