Mash-Up!

K - musically I love mash-ups. When using them in writing, I love them even more. Which is why for Day 17 I am using the prompt.  Here it is.

The following prompts are from Bill Alton. Use them as titles, opening lines, or combine all of them into a single poetic form.

1. My body is a speakeasy
2. Morning comes without the sun.
3. I loved him most when he asked me to leave.
4. Pain is the mind’s way of burning through fear

And awwwwwwwwayyyyy we go....

he knew it 

couldn't continue

knew a choice 

had to be made

life,

death.

but why must

it be made

by my hand?

morning comes without

the sun

when loss is at your 

door

i prefer the dark

i couldn't look

heaven in the eye

not feeling the anger

i do

not feeling the the

pain and 

earth shattering hate

that lives in my heart

i look in the window

and i loved him most

when he asked me to leave

taking the burden on his own

and i gasp as i watch 

the plug being released

and i sob as i see

his soul drifting away

i cry to the heavens

be damned forever

you can't take him

that's MY daddy

©2011