I dribble sadness with my mind

chaperoned by waning moon.

I crawl behind the barren sky

welded with steel bars of doom

from shooting stars on high.

Rocks weigh down my heart

as black wolves howl my fate,

trapped in clotted arteries

dripping blood in blackest night.

Nails fasten festered wounds to skin,

eyes teem with drops of blue despair.

Joy has been wiped off with ragged

tissues of throbbing heartache.

Eagle talons claw my soul,

leaving somber pieces of torn flesh

while I forget the taste of breathing.

Dying in the cesspool of life

I walk alone in my sorrow,

remembering what time has erased.

Silently it strangles

A tight grip that weaves a web through the catacombs of a once full heart

Now bare and brittle

Cracking under every breath

Threatening to shatter

Splintering shards of memories

That escape her eyes

Painting the floor with broken promises

And a love now lost