A fading gloom.
Fragments of happy.
Smile half lovely.
Shady mornings.
Clever thoughts of you.
Eyes full of two.
Tender whispers
kept me company.
Cloaking lonely.
Waiting around.
Careless dreaming.
Solitary.
A spacious heart,
but no room for me.
Eyes uneasy.
A pulse deadened.
Determined to breathe.
Words in pieces.
Radiant you
give up blamelessly
on midnight me.
Reflections fade,
but scribbles remain.
So here I’ll stay.
Floating on words.
Dancing on promise.
Savoring this.
Alone.
I lay my head down, drifting away.
Waves of silence crashing over me.
Tossing, turning, gasping under my sheets.
A barrage of thoughts
collides with my pillow.
Shattering
Slipping
Sinking profoundly.
And my dreams make shadows of the pieces.
Submerged in this hell, I lose my way.
A surge of gloom billows over me.
Twisting, turning, writhing in this misery.
My dreams fading quickly,
then completely.
Searching
Suffering
Struggling sightlessly.
My heart, companion with darkness.
On the shores of devastation, I stay.
Decay becomes my company.
Resigning, retreating, surrendering to fear.
My heart frigid.
Its beat frozen.
Strangled
Smothered
Suffocated completely.
My soul collapses in defeat.
Where are the words
that made me dream?
Where are the lullabies
that saturated my heart?
Where are the eyes
that soothed my soul?
Hope Composed 