{"sf1_id":1491625,"sf2_id":"AnK4PGo1","title":"Vitreous","author":"Fere_Ermelis","words":166,"posted_at":"2019-09-20T02:52:00.000Z","tags":["Cubs","Death","Family","Fox","Grief","Poem","River","Vixen","sadness"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1491625-vitreous","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/AnK4PGo1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/80/b4/80b4eb98-febd-444c-90fc-4c5a57db6f27","description":"A poem about a male fox who laments his lost vixen and cubs, speaking of his grief and sadness to the nearby river.","content":"Dearest liquid life,\n\nFaces of many that stare,\n\ntelling of this path and others,\n\nOf souls so bare, that they are liquid.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nShattered glass pane,\n\nhow come you flow so smooth?\n\nTaking my head and scribbling life,\n\nmaroon splinters, auburn shard,\n\ntake me into your maw.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSummer days gone, and I look at you alone,\n\nonce many images flowed to you,\n\nSix faces bright and roan,\n\nsunken to aqueous spill.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI look to you free, but gaze away broken,\n\n\u0026nbsp;you offer my brain to the grass,\n\nto the sky,\n\nyet I remain flaked and furred, to my loss,\n\nto my image, to my heart.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI shall leave you now, forgive my tears,\n\nyou soak me up, ecorche traveller,\n\nbobbing heads of playful kin,\n\nshaking, shimmering, fading.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIn the ether of my end, I shall always be,\n\nbut to them who are but mist now,\n\nblessed in my plea, to a deafened blade.\n\nAnd thus, their end.\n\nAnd I am alone again."}