Deception's Sear

Letters marked to sender.
Dyed with ink and tears.
Each word a rite of passage.
Time travel through the years.

Like film its image hosting,
A memory unheeded.
Unwanted.
Reserved.

The paper is to burn,
For all its might and purpose.
Crisp, blackened, churned,
Return of rotten ashes.

What's left?
Remnant goodbyes.
Destroyed time and years.
Discord heart and burning.

So they say,
"Dust to dust,
And ashes to ashes.
Go all with age and lies."

Left with but a match,
Turn to reflections loving curse.
Who do you see?
Deceptions looking back.

He smiles at you now.
Yearning.
Wanting.
All lips and charred black teeth.

Who are you now?
Frozen.
What are you now?
Dead.

So he says,
"Dust to dust,
And ashes to ashes.
Go all with age and lies."

So he takes the match.

Steals your scream.

And burns you all to cinder.

"Dust to dust,
And ashes to ashes.
Go all with age and lies."