Flask and Pen

A Literary Magazine exploring our world through short stories, poetry, and essays.

Sudden Death

October 14th, 2007

So this is grief -
This gnawing hunger for a truer resolution
Beyond withdrawal, surrender, submission
This sharp, screaming echo
This collection of broken shards, nightmare corpses
These deceitful shells
This abandoned path
Which ebbs and winds and dies.

So pitiful, it doesn't fit
It does not complete something
That began with so much potential.