red blood

black sky

I’ve tasted the dust

on my tongue,

felt the shadows

close around me,

seen my dreams set

adrift

in an endless night.

how am I alive?

huddled within my

shattered mind

nothing gained,

everything lost in a

lifeless dream

the rainbow’s been

broken

colors crushed

against this harsh reality

nothing grows from

where nothing could,

and phantom pains sear

my soul

alone in my fate,

I share with those

before.

would I be a dead soul

forever to walk

questioning

hope, an illusion

haunting the memory

of the desolation

alone?