Poetry Reading: After the Embers, by Jade Spencer

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

How did I get here
In a place so barren
Barefoot, standing in coals
Wandering, while flesh burns
And denying it hurts
Dark love molded me unrecognizable
Clinging to the very thing that ails me
This relationship that wafts of rot
Molded at the core
How can it be
Turning from self in pain
Heart’s capacity to withstand the unbearable
And stay, still, stuck
A dead tree whose roots sink deep
Down, down into the abyss
To hell took a journey
Heat rising, like time ticking
I couldn’t feel the sting
Edges crisping slowly
Until I’m engulfed in flames
Red hot with anguish
I called it by another name
Not amour, or grit, or strength
All what’s soft withered away
Until the squeals halt to silence
And the last crackle pops
The final fleeting song
So just the shell is left
Shadow of a woman
Soot of grey and black
The ashes of hopes and dreams
Fall to my feet infront of me

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