PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

I see carrion lying discarded by the road side.

I sit and wonder what it must have felt as it died.

Mangled and torn I can see it's flesh

Bones crushed and brain matter splattered from it's head

Poor gentle creature, why did you get in it's path?

Soon your body will bloat and maggots will feast

The stench of decomposition will fill the summer air

Did you die all at once or did you suffer till the end?

What curious things I wonder as you lie there dead

Was it a car or a truck that took you from this place?

Did you see it coming, this unyielding train?

What random thoughts did your conciousness conceive?

Did you watch each glimpse of your life flash by?

Now you are no longer with us in this livid life

You are but a pile of flesh soon putrefying the soil.

Why did you run across the road this day?

Was I so bad that you didn't have any other way?

I'm sorry I scared you, I never meant to make you flee

But you were gone in an instant, no longer here with me

Why did I loosen my grip and let you slip away?

All I can think as I see you lying on the ground

Is I wish that I hadn't yelled and scolded you down

I feel the tears swelling and my heart is soon to burst

I just want to say I love you, I know I hurt you most

It is now that I realize exactly what I see

It's you.... my lover lying in this dead misery...