The Closest He Could Be; The Heart Beats

He stands over her body

The body of the woman

Once full of life

Once full of love

Love for everyone

Love for him

The day that she died

He had finally confessed

His everlasting love for her

In which she replied

"No one will ever

love you the way I do"

He is the man of the morgue

Who cremates the bodies

Yet as he looked down upon her

He felt the need to fulfill her wish

To turn her to ashes

No matter how hard it would be

Yet before he does it

One last thing he must do

The incision is made

Cutting down the middle

Not much blood left

To ooze out

As he peels her open

And looks in at the heart

The heart that love him

The heart he had loved

One thing he must do

To be the closest he could be

He reaches his hand in

And grasps the heart

And with the power of eternal love

Feels the heart beat.

Jim and Lola

- Before my poem starts, I just want to say that this is probably my most emotional poem to me. As soon as I finished writing my heart was pounding so hard that I could hear it, and my eyes were tearing up... Hope you enjoy :)

Jim and Lola

Jim and Lola

both in late-teens

been neighbors forever

both very keen

What Lola doesn't know

is Jim always loved her

what Jim doesn't know

is that he has cancer

Jim went to the doctor

once symptoms arose

and got quite a shock

then though "life blows"

Kept hidden in secrecy

Jim's condition was

just as his love for Lola

he hides, yes he does

One final day

his heart couldn't take it

so his death he did

go out and fake it

Everyone was worried

except for his love

because she knew he could fake it

and he woke like a dove

She picked him up

and said "I love you"

and at that moment

he knew what to do

One day he felt ill

and knew it was his last

and in his heart

he felt love from the past

The past is the present

the present day love

and every sad feeling

he pushed and he shoved

The next day a package

showed up at Lola's door

not mailed but hand delivered

for Jim was very poor

The box had a note

to the "love", signed by Jim

Lola opened the paper

and then really felt she knew him

"This couldn't wait

for if it did it would rot

I just wanted you to know

I love you, a lot"

The package she did open

and dropped lovely tears

at the heart in the box

and the lovely beating she hears...

"Goodnight"

As I stood in the crowd

Hovering a little

I strained to see

What the crowd was examining

I finally realized what it was

When I saw my girlfriend

Standing in black

With tears rolling down her face

I had gone

My job had finally gotten the best of me

It's what I get

For being a cop

But it's not what

She should get

She had no one left

No one to help her

As they lowered my body into the ground

She sobbed harder and harder

With no one around to hold her

I glided toward her

Reaching my hands, my arms

Just wanting to comfort her

She walked right through me

Not noticing my presence one bit

Five hours later

I sat in the chair that faced our bed

Watching her cry

Cry herself to sleep

The sobbing slowly ceased

As she drifted off to sleep

I crawled up behind her

And wrapped my arms tight around her waist

I guess ghosts can sleep as well

Because I fell asleep

But just in time

To see her crack a small sleepy smile

and hear her whisper

"Goodnight"

Tangerine the Black Bear

Dedicated to Joy Wellington, she gave me the random prompt of 'black bear', 'tangerine', and 'alien' and I came up with this random thing.

Tangerine Tangerine

Tangerine the black bear

Went walking through the forrest

Tangerine was not black

As the name of the animal says

But more orange as his real name suggests

Tangerine Tangerine

Tangerine the black bear

Met up with a creature

With very little fur

Which seemed ironic to the orange bear

Because the creature was a hare

Tangerine Tangerine

Tangerine the black bear

Talked to the creature

To ask him why he had no hair

An alien he was

Who was born with very little fuzz

Tangerine Tangerine

Tangerine the black bear

Wanted to be just like the hare

So he asked him how and what and where

The hare replied by holding him by the hip

And going up into his ship.