We lost the ability
to make smiles
draw themselves
all over our faces.
Our crayon words
no longer gave any colour
to lips stained in hurt and pain.
We lost the look in our eyes,
the starlight that once twinkled.
Long ago faded and died.
And I don't know
if I can ever get that back.
Every dropped smile
I can no longer pick up.
Every beat of that cartoon heart,
now broken and cracked.
Inside I feel like
my shards are shaking,
a snow globe
filled with shattered splinters
cascading.
And the stars
in my eyes
long ago faded.
Every melancholic scrawl,
now like charcoal
over a sheet white wall.
Every broken hope,
left to fend for itself
in this wilderness
that exists between my ears.
I tend dead flowers
in the pouring rain
as the starlight fades again.
Oh, how I wish the world
would wrap her arms around me.
Just to feel close to beauty.
I'd lay and watch the sky,
that majestic sea,
but I know that when I do
it’s you that I'll see.
The stars would fade
as they do eternally
and I'd be left
in this nocturnal transparency.
Alone, afraid
and waiting for tranquillity.
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