Darkness Falls


The night consumes her.

Loneliness pours over her body,

Despair wracks her soul.

The cigarette ashes float in the air above,

As the smoke swirls around, thick and musty.

Tears roll down a broken face.

The old wounds open,

The blood runs free.

Darkness fills the void where a heart used to be.

A silent cry into the night,

Trying to contain the pain.

Everything’s gone,

Gone so far away.

The break of an empty bottle in a shaking hand.

An escape from a life unwanted,

A broken shard between two fingers.

Afraid of the pain.

Yet wanting so badly to escape

Slick glass, razor edge,

Glides across the white of a wrist.

Sticky crimson merges with salty crystalline tears.

Numbness takes over,

Life drifts away under the stars.