By Elizabeth Sawdon You named me once I was not yours to name. You named me twice But all the same I answered when you called. But since, ignored your beck, And when you stopped your calling, Phone or pen, Gave way to distance, silence then.   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Susan DiPronio Will you wash my body when I lay upon the last throne.   No other will do.   As stiffness replaces softness that held you through the storms   let your fingers flow gently tracing the last lines of my life.   While they fill with your tears drink of me one last time.   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Peter Devonald Deeply uncomfortable in our own flawed skin we wriggled, writhed and slithered into someone else’s.   It was easier this way, to pretend, to make-believe, a mask on a mask, to forever be an actor.   Soon we’d forget who we really were, lost in an echo chamber of other people’s desires. #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge