2023 NaPM 16 April

[RiverNotch]

Posting a little early today, as it's not-Gregorian Easter. (Χριστός ανέστη!)

This 2020 prompt on the same day is curiously specific. By Quixilated:

Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.  Anyone is allowed to contribute a poem at any time.  

Topic: Death by Words (courtesy of 2018 IISZ Challenge prompt)
Write a poem, prose-poem, or prose piece which contains 17 or more of the 69 words below:

(Gender, tense, and plurality may be changed.)

The 69 words:

awesome, blind, bloody, bunny, burden, 
burning, cherish, crazy, cruel, cute, 
daredevil, darling, desire, destiny, devastate, 

disgrace, doom, drown, emptiness, eternity, 
extinction, fool, forever, grief, guilt, 
harmony, heavenly, hotheaded, hugs, humiliation, 

icy, immortality, infinite, joy, karma, 
kiss, kitten, kooky, loathing, longing, 
millstone, miracle, misery, moon, oath, 

oblivion, paralysis, passion, puppy, pure, 
rose, sacred, sacrifice, savage, serendipity, 
shame, shattering, slaughter, slave, sweetheart,

tears, torture, trauma, venomous, victim, 
weak, worry, wound, wrenching

Form: any
Lines: 8 or more