Abandoned

This is not the one I have been working on, this is one that jumped out at me for some reason today.

Rejected
The pleas before the grim reaper

Given-up
The power from the life-support machine

Abandoned
Looking down at the coffin

Left
Looking around at everyone else crying

Forsaken
The rain turning everything to mud

Cast-aside
The family of the deceased looking in anguish

Jilted
The widow with the family she had just joined

Dropped
The casket being lowered into the rain-sodden ground

Alone
Not able to talk to anyone about the loss

Realisation
What’s that bright light?

Β© Alastair Forbes 2012

26 thoughts on “Abandoned

  1. Very deep…..love things that make me thing. It was very powerful and something that stayed with me all day!! How many ways can I tell you how wonderful your work is? Need to break out my Thesaurus! πŸ™‚

            • It’s down about eight degrees today from what it has been. Thankfully. Cats are so agitated either.

              Although a bloody great spider did just go into my daughters room, I’m surprised you didn’t hear the screams over there lol

            • Sorry about that I am the official spider remover in the house so am familiar with “screams” lol, I grew up on a farm, so no biggy for me. πŸ™‚

            • LOL. I used to be arachnophobic, but a TV hypnotist did a “thing” on TV where he said he could get rid if your fears. Although he did, and I have no fear of spiders any more, I couldn’t pick that one up as it was so big.

              After throwing it off the balcony, I could see it running around in the dark. My daughter will probably have nightmares tonight though 😦

            • I am sorry about that! I used to talk with the spiders I would find as a child. I thought they seemed rather solitary and lonely. I guess that tells you something about my early years huh! However my brother was 2 years older than me and he pretty much made sure I didn’t have too many spiders friends for very long! πŸ™‚ I hope there are no nightmares in your house tonight!

            • I used to like spiders as a kid, then saw one once and panicked for some reason. After that, I couldn’t even touch the small ones. (Not good when everybody in the house is scared of them)

              Hope she doesn’t have any either. She’s gone to bed late tonight (00:40) so hopefully she’ll be too tired.

              Going to have an early night myself. Early? Ha! 1am. Well, normally when the kids are on holiday I go to bed about 2am (6pm over there) that way I get some time to relax without teenagers πŸ™‚

  2. Powerful, Strong, emotionally lucid, Creating from the id of you. And with referencing how it just came out – now that my fried is what I’m talking about. Excellent piece Mondrak, Penny

    • Thank you Penny. I actually started with the “abandoned” part, then “left”, “rejected” and then “given up” but it didn’t look right, it looked too out of synch.

      Thank you for comments, it makes me happy to know that people like it.

    • Thanks. I don’t even know where that one came from. The only thing I did to alter was to change the order of a couple of them after I finished typing it.

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