: contains a graphic description of death, murder, and depression.

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Death so languid

As fiery as a feather

That kisses the face

Of its demise as ever

Drowning deep down

With muffled screams

The strands so heavy

Just crying for peace

When eyes couldn't see

Beyond the interface

Its last breath of hope

Buried in waters beneath

Was it like the tales?

Was there a holy light?

Or was it bleak black

all over the other side

I wonder what it saw

walking by the rails

Of the spindly bridge

On the river of life

A Tale of Death

The Fall of a Feather

A voice of dreams

Just gone forever

There were hundreds

Of feathers like it

Oblivious and happy

Playing with glee

They were all puppets

In a useless scheme

It wondered why

It wasn't like them

Tons of conversations

Not a single one with it

A room full of feathers

But no friends to greet

View of its lonely corner

Everyone in a jolly dance

While it was suffocating

On tears that tear apart

Once it was too

With all of them

The others on the wings

Of the heaven they said

But it couldn't keep up

With the glory of them

It tried n' tried its best

But it still went in vain

Pain was a pinch of salt

Always the right amount

Not a life without knives

Nor a death with smiles

For it was forever

The last in the line

Defenseless little thing

That was barely even alive

The dark couldn't help

Dragging this easy claim

To the edge of its mind

Where the evils dwell

Just a little push

Was all that it took

To fall from grace

For falling loose

N' the lake of dark

Kept beckoning it

Knew no mercy

Under its placid phiz

Nobody looked back

Nobody gave a call

No one even realized

It wasn't there anymore

Smiles and hopes

All faded to none

As it kept falling

And falling alone

Down as it goes

Limbs flailing around

It chokes, it suffers

In this peaceful town

Water in the throat

Freezing up its heart

Right up to the end

Before it could even start

Selfish it may be

As it found its calm

Not a hero of any sort

And it was fine by that

Sun was on the horizon

Casting shadows of allure

On the ghastly waters

Of this tranquil lake

That can rival the sky

In its beauty and art

Just close your eyes

And let go at last

Death as languid

As a fiery feather

That kisses the face

Of its demise as ever

-KR

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So here is another poem. This one is quite dark and can have several interpretations. I would love to hear yours, u can comment here or message me on my account.

One of the interpretations is of depression, falling loose of all expectations, and eventual death. But this poem has another storyline sorta too, I would like to explain that a bit.

Now, I know some people disagree with explanations and want stuff to be left to interpretations, so you don't have to read this. But this is one of the possibilities.

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For the imagery of this poem, we imagine that there's this huge bird on which all these feathers are (the bird is the society).

So the bird is flying over a lake. And then there is this feather that falls off the bird and falls in the lake and sinks in it. Hence, 'the fall of a feather'

So, there's this feather(metaphorically a person), and this person is sorta different from others by just the way it thinks or does things or an overall representation of someone who is different in terms of social norms and convention....like LGBT people for eg.

This is a sad story about its suffering and how it died.

In a line it says, they are "puppets in a scheme' referring to other people who are normal, are living their lives happily by following the formula aka scheme put out for them.

They don't see the big picture, so these people kinda shun our protagonist bcz he is diff.

The "dark" we r talking abt in this poem can be taken in several ways. For eg, let's say we r in some old kingdom of monarchy and there is our feather who supports democracy, so the "dark" is the people who are against our feather person.

Since he is alone, he is an easy target, they drag him out and kill him by drowning him.

Hope u enjoyed :)

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