Withered by Frost

Sweep up the memories from where you dropped them
Speckling the ground with lost hopes and dreams
Snapshot moments frozen in time
Withered black by the frost of your neglect

The past, not-so-easily discarded; disregarded
Ashes of the bridges you burnt still linger in the air
Their acidic aftertaste branding your flesh with unseen scars

Build your walls
Shield your heart

But the scalding wind will remain steadfast
Forever howling your failures to a blood-stained moon
It's haunting tune a perennial Requiem
Echoing long passed your demise