Ophelia

Free verse

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Ophelia
Mad girl, can you hear?
The voices of the water,
calling me home. Pray we
remember,
Pray we regret.
And pray I never
slumber with a
mouthful of
despair.

Pure love, can you sing?
A song for the bones,
decaying alone. Pray we
remember,
Pray we regret.
And pray I lie asunder
With the silence of the dead.
Sweet ghost, didn’t you see?
No ending of our story but corpses overgrown. And thus we mourn,
and thus we grieve
For the souls of the living; a dead girl walking.

Pray we
remember,
Pray we
regret.
And at last, six feet under;
The finality to our closure.