Home Keys
Have you forgotten
you have no need for these?
Forgotten they’re a blown candle
during the night.
Forgotten the chains that make up your bones
and bring you to your knees.
For respect,
I’ll remember to put stones in your grave:
Throw hard coal
to the ashes, dear slave.
And…
Have you forgotten
these have no use for you?
It’s true!
Don’t be selfish,
Give me your home,
Give me your glasses-
since you have no tome.
Give me your name,
the only thing the dead keep.
And last, please,
Give me your keys…
And…
Have you forgotten, that you’re no longer human.
Now, remember and reap,
and I’ll do the same,
when I open your door…
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JamesMByers
I love your work!!!

CYS_Correia
@JamesMByers Thank you so much!! You have no idea how much that means to me.

morosehippie
And so do I!

CreativeChaos
Beautiful!

Tee_Hi
Wow! What a beautiful flow it has!

sandflea68
This is so upsetting that man could do this to other men! (women, children) Very well written.

CYS_Correia
@morosehippie @CreativeChaos @Tee_Hi Thank you!

CYS_Correia
@sandflea68 It truely is.

aniketnikhade
So many things said in such a precise way. Thought process is absolutely clear, very well in place and the entire way of telling thing is absolutely interesting. Great work.

Mtrubenfire
Very nicely done!

CYS_Correia
@aniketnikhade @Mtrubenfire Thank you!

DaveK
"Forgotten the chains that make up your bones
and bring you to your knees."
Take a bow my friend. That's freaking gold.

CYS_Correia
@CerebralEmotion Thank you!

Mavia
CYS_ this is a frightening, moving poem. Having read my writes, you sense no doubt how I feel about Home. Hence, I read this simply put as Rape. No, no not with feminist outrage against sexual assault—the very base definition as the imposition of another’s will against the sacred center of an Other (like Mankind against Mother Earth)… Obviously you are discussing individuals here. But No! CYS I do not “hate your soul!” for such a potent write :o I know you penned this with your heart in the place of opposition to a wrong, with all decency. I do have difficulty overlooking the line: “Give me your name, the only thing the dead keep,” it strikes me as a obtrusive logical fallacy… which can be effectively mitigated by something like “Give me your name, only Silence the dead keep.” The third repetition of “Have you forgotten...” seems to me to unnecessarily weaken the impact of the ending. Consider the possibility of combining as a line in itself, “Give me your keys: you’re no longer human.” The handing over of keys, in my read being the locking up of the Spirit; and the “open your door…” as the final collection of the Soul. It is a gripping poem! Really well done. Please don’t let my reactions unnerve you… I am centering my orbit, so no worries! Tag me anytime and let’s write on : ) Mavia