Dead woman walking by
soul-less eyes cast far beyond
A state of being long forgotten
All she does now is envy others
comparing her life to their owntwisted
in bitterness devoid of insight
sans
light, sans life sans zest, sans soul
just
a dead woman glaring back at life
©Vivian Zems
Paul hosts dVerse today….the theme…soul-gazing. Mine’s rather dark.
Smell The Coffee 
March 21, 2018 at 2:45 am
Aging brings its sad realities. The walking dead are all around us. We just don’t see them or try to avoid seeing them. You really did a great job on this one.
Dwight
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March 21, 2018 at 1:37 pm
Thanks Dwight! 🙂
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March 21, 2018 at 3:26 am
Well-described……the glaring at life, not realizing that it is their skewed vision that creates the world they see. Sigh.
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March 21, 2018 at 1:37 pm
You got it! Thank goodness… I had a slight temperature while writing so my brain was a little blah. Thank you 🙂
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March 21, 2018 at 11:15 am
If there is one thing I know I need to do on this crazy mission to earth it is to keep my soul aflame. When the sleeping see an alive soul, their own cannot help but be stirred.
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March 21, 2018 at 11:41 am
The walking dead. Not such fiction as perhaps we thought. Powerful write Viv. Get well soon x
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March 21, 2018 at 1:31 pm
Thanks Paul… I’m reading this again and I think it was all inspired by a high fever!
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March 21, 2018 at 12:31 pm
A soulless life is worse than a death. Strongly portrayed, Vivian.
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March 21, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Thanks, Sue. It is indeed.
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March 21, 2018 at 6:53 pm
I think dying starts long before the body gives up if we do not feed the soul’s fire.
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March 21, 2018 at 8:36 pm
She does seem to lack some zest for life. Our daily routines can turn us all into the walking dead
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March 21, 2018 at 10:05 pm
HanGinG Dead
Do Walk Alive
Do Crawl in DArk
iN BrighTesT
Days
oF NiGht
Change Means
Hope No Matter wHat..:)
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March 22, 2018 at 12:33 am
Really well written – ‘a dead woman glaring back at life’ — love that line!
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March 22, 2018 at 9:33 am
Thanks, Jo!
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March 22, 2018 at 12:44 am
Someone with no spark of life, no soul, just walking dead ~
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March 22, 2018 at 9:16 am
Exactly 🙂
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March 22, 2018 at 8:49 pm
This un-nerved me. the image made it even more un-nerving. Well- written I like how you set it out.
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March 23, 2018 at 9:01 am
Indeed quite un-nerving….and thanks for sticking it out to the end 🙂
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