Sober Maggets Wake Poem by Dakota Ellerton

Dare you try to speak,
with maggets fleeing from your rotting flesh.
I could scream and collapse,
still you'd no exhist.
You'd left the world,
leaving me behind.
I thought the bond between parent and child was stronger,
then life or death.
When you died,
I died.
I'd given all my innocence,
all my honesty.
I forever lived a lie.
Without you,
nothing seemed as enjoyable.
Life was merely miserable.
Even to this day I can hardly lift my head,
I struggle to leave my bed.
I miss you like my other half.
I could spend my life searching for a fullness,
only to remain empty.