Lay me down in this grave
you’ve dug just for me
and bury me beneath
six feet of earth
without a string
attached to a bell
as a cry for help
to save my wretched soul.
© Sarah Doughty
This piece was published at Crossing Genres, a publication at Medium.
Sarah Doughty 
Very beautiful, and visually pleasing in its structure.
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Thank you very much! 😊
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Quite my pleasure 🙂
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I like the irony of the name – it is a cry in the graveyard and yet this graveyard is utterly silent.
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Yes, exactly.
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Thanks for sharing this
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It was my pleasure. I really enjoyed writing it.
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Good. Writing is often a great way to increase self knowledge. Do you ever reread your writings much later and learn something about yourself you didn’t know?
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I often look back and sometimes realize how far I’ve come in evolving and growing. That’s always a good thing.
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Wishing you a Happy New Year with the hope that you will have many blessings in the year to come!!!With love Maxima
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And to you as well! Thank you!
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You always amaze.. short but powerful !!
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Thank you so much!
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This has a Poe-like quality in a bell to prevent live interment. Nice!
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That was what I was thinking of when I wrote this. Long before, bells were once attached to buried coffins in the event that people were falsely presumed dead. I thought it was a nice touch. Bury someone alive without that bell to save them.
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You’re on fire! Love the passion 🙂
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Thank you, Ryan! 😊
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