lotus.

Once happy sparkling colors filled his face

Once she left, happiness couldn’t be replaced

Cue creaky merry -go-round sounds

He was lost until you found him, now he’s lost again

Bound to the grains of sand that slipped through your dainty hands

The essence of our effigy withers away

Beautiful arrays of rainbows turned gray

Fantasies frantically fall off the walls

Hope vanishes thinking that you’d ever call

Care is just a blank stare in the darkness

Love is a 404 error: Feeling not found

Delicate sensations are replaced with terror and friction

Sickness snickers, coughing up memories covered in blood

Haunted with hypoxia, twisted like a frayed rag

My soul got snagged on your barbed intent

Stacks of letters sent, scattered then charred

Frozen in the shadows of the melancholy tundra

Listless reciprocation mirrors accelerated decay

With profusion of dismay, collapsing desires everyday

The shell of yesterday, disintegrating the succor of tomorrow

Once an adventurous family, a plethora of pictures he saves

Now shaking with a shovel, swaying above a shallow grave

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I don't know where the sunbeams end
And the starlights begin
It's all a mystery