Fanciful and presently tense
In a world replete with love and good intentions
She should have lived forever

Angelic manifestation
Of what should be and where hope perseveres
She should have survived his temptation

Light dancing on the water’s surface
Where the wind kisses the waves before they crash
She should have loved and that love lasted

The sun refracts love into a myriad of actions
When passion and patience reside without distraction
She should have worn a white dress in satisfaction

Music comforting those who feel the vibrations
As joy and warmth pass over us in oscillations
She should have smiled away her mother’s consternation

Arcing wayward in darkest sorrow
Passing the place where hope lay barren
She should have woken sleepy eyed tomorrow

Pitching foreword into the twisting nether
Catching hearts as she clutched the air
She could have lived forever

Her eyelids flutter when she dreams and weeps
The breeze sends ripples through her hair
She should be peaceful as she sleeps

You sit and stare directly ahead
Alive outside and inwardly dead
Pretending truth from the things you’ve read
Branded “selfish” across your forehead

The rain drops drown it out
Pitter patter unending shout
Liquid torrent and then it ends
Blown away by westward winds

Cast aside- tempest subsiding
In the open and no longer hiding
Clawed marks from the past
Open wounds that eternally last

Unable to pass it by
You stare mistake dead in the eye
White to white and black to black
Deep in despair- no turning back

You did it for yourself with anger and malice
Directed inward and so intense
The past snapped around your waist
And tore into your breast

The blood pours out with your future
Cold- you look into the sky
And the same blank reflection you’ve seen before
Mirrors sadness in your eyes