Whispers colliding, secrets unspool,
A dance of shadows against faded light,
Each heartbeat louder than the last,
Unchained embers where memories ignite.
The truest mirror shows the cracks of despair,
Longing shatters upon the altar of truth;
Beauty curdles; malaise entwines with flair,
Bloodstained remnants scribble melodies of proof.
Consider the void where adventures linger,
Shadows have comic fever-claws that claw;
Do they care what they echo through your fingers,
Inmutably in love with the earth's warped jaw?
Boots of iron scrape above the honeycomb,
Smiling ghosts march into forgotten rooms;
Their laughter sowing despair's kingdom of foam,
A harvest of dreams SPOILING, decaying in fumes.