Cry Away Memories -- a Blitz Poem

Cry Away Memories

So happy you could die

So happy you could cry

Cry me a river

Cry until you run dry

Dry as the desert

Dry up the words in your heart

Heart wounds heal slowest

Heart cares not

Not for all the world

Not in all of time

Time for free thought

Time enough for love

Love carries all things

Love bears all burdens

Burdens pile on until backs break

Burdens lay where they drop

Drop dead in your tracks

Drop that hot potato at your own risk

Risk not want not

Risk everything for a kiss

Kiss me 

Kiss you

You love me

You can bear me no ill will

Will work for food

Will fuck for work

Work killing me a day at a time

Work taking its cut of your soul

Soul drippings are the trimming

Soul droppings are the words

Words are the blessings

Words are the curse

Curse in the hearing of a child

Curse put upon me from birth

Birth to death and back again

Birth I will never see

See the scars invisible

See invisible tears

Tears streak down from soulless eyes

Tears puddle on the floor

Floor slippery when wet

Floor bathed in water

Water washes away the stains

Water cleanses and clears

Clears away the pain
Clears away the memories
Memories...
Pain...

12/20/12

Form: Blitz

Blitz Poem: series of short phrases and images with repetition and rapid flow. Begin with one short phrase, can start with a cliche. Begin the next line with the same word as line. The third and fourth lines are phrases that begin with the last word of the 2nd phrase. the 5th and 6th lines begin with the last word of the 4th line and so one, continuing with each subsequent pair beginning with the last word of the line above them, which establishes a pattern of repetition. The title must be only 3 words with some sort of preposition or conjunction joining the first word from the third line to the first word from the 47th line, in that order. There should be no punctuation. When reading a Blitz, read it very quickly pausing only to breathe.