Tuesday, 8 April 2025

Blackened flowers, no vase.

 


Walking amongst

blackened flowers,

a sad sea of sorrow,

where the waves don’t merely rise,

they surge like a zombie army

created by loves demise.

Amongst bare trees, naked shivers

in the howl of the wind.

They sense nothing,

just darkness.

A world under grey sky.

 

The grass dead.

once flowers grown

in this place

would put on a bountiful display,

but now

patchy, deep brown,

muddy stains just reflect the pain

of the lives we threw away.

It's so hard to look back

like staring into the sunlight,

a world from which we fled

into a realm of the dead.

 

Ruins sit where streets should be,

old crypts of history,

left to the black slime that oozes

over everything. This is their world now.

We had our chance, our time in the sun,

our lives, but we neglected them.

We misled ourselves into a world of dread,

where a coin meant more than a flowerbed.

Where notes where our only hopes,

and love was a selfish act.

Where we didn't care who we hurt

as long as we got, where?

As long as we reached, where?

As long as we never stayed still.

It was kill or be killed

and we didn't shed a tear.

 

Amongst these dead roses,

a figure slumps.

One survivor out of millions.

Was he the lucky one,

or the most damaged of all?

He saw the world fall,

saw the end of it all.

The world he knew crumbled

into the debris and rubble

of a better day.

He picked the roses

let them cut his fingers,

shards of blood, glass fragments

blackened from the hurt inside.

 

He remembered the days before.

When the darkness began to pour.

He saw the colour begin to fade.

He felt the sting of that burning rain,

the rain that left scars over his face,

like teardrops cried

for what was once the human race.

He let the glass fragment roses

cut deep into his hand.

Happy to be feeling hurt,

at what had long ago died.

 

 




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Kyle

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