THEMES

 THEMES

Pain and Regret

A shard of glass burrows deep within my chest,

Its edges glint red, slicing with every breath,

An ache like rusted nails clawing through my marrow,

A sleepless shadow, heavy as wet earth on a grave.  

Love

Our love roared like a wildfire drunk on wind,

Flames licking the sky with greedy, crackling tongues,

It charred my dreams to brittle husks,

A wasteland of embers where once roses burned alive.  

Addiction

I chased a phantom pool, rippling in the heat,

A siren’s croon, honeyed and warm against my ear,

But the water dissolved to sand in my throat,

A mocking echo fading into a parched, endless dusk.  

Memories

Specters drift from the fog, eyes hollow as skulls,

Their whispers slither like frost over bare skin,

Each word a chain, dragging me through lost years,

A frigid wind howling tales of what might have been.  

Setting

The bar looms dim, a cave of curling smoke,

Cigarette haze stings my eyes, thick as grief,

Ice rattles in glasses like bones in a crypt,

Voices hum low, a dirge swallowed by the gloom.  

Hope

Yet a crack splits the iron shroud I wear,

A thread of gold spills in, warm as dawn’s first blush,

A murmur soft as lips brushing a scar,

Slices the dark, a fragile hymn rising from ash.