Here Lies Everything That Once Was

Here Lies Everything That Once Was

Along the winding path you will see an empty clearing 

This is the place where everything became so weary 

This is the place that I have dreamt about these past few nights. 

Falling apart like the splitting hairs of a leukaemia angel 

That tumbles to the ground in a soft bliss. 

We have been talking about leaving this place for years. 

These teardrops never had meaning until now 

And every one of them has a surrogate feeling 

Broken into a million pieces like a shattered mirror. 

The shade from the trees will keep you in the dark

Safe from the visualization of my dissolving wings

And from the sounds of my withering melody. 

Never before has such a wicked story come true

Swept clean from any shades of a silver lining 

But still stained from the perseverance of time. 

Along the winding path you will come across an empty clearing

When you get there you will know what to do.  

Author's Note

Reviews

[That_Girl]

Lovely. Standout stanza: "The shade from the trees will keep you in the dark
Safe from the visualization of my dissolving wings
And from the sounds of my withering melody."


Nicely done

[Mockingbird]

very melancholy. there is a hint of cynicism. it sounds like a moral. great poem.

[MOON]

Lovely write as usual love your word choice and the way you weave the story and give realistic striking endings.

[Serenity Faith]

I think I just fell in love with your poem Cole. And to have NIN playing in the background as I read. I dunno...it just struck me hard for some reason. Even with it's sense of hopelessness...but maybe that's why? I'm left to ponder now....

[Celestial Witch Child]

Melancholy and breath-taking. Perfect music choice to accent this piece, if I may add.

[Peaceworker22]

Makes me think... Good work.

[L. Edward Neale]

Yeah. Great ending. I love poems that loop around like that. It reminds me of the circular nature of things, time, the sun, moon stars and Cole Skies muse. Ending is key in a poem. The more haunting the better indeed.

[Jordan A. Wilson]

it's righteous. keep it up.

[Marie]

No hope...but perserverence...leaving the empty clearing empty...

[Kimberly "Melody" Carne..]

You are such an amazing writer! I love this as I fall deep into the depth of it fluid words!