Like Air.

I found a dead body today

Outcast to the far edge of the woods
Mutilated and forgotten, limbs splayed
Twisted and bent in distorted ways

Blood evident, vehement gashes
Creeping out her eyes like tears
Her watery eyes wide and unseeing
I felt green to the tips of my ears

The carcass smelt three years dead
Far decayed, foul, gaunt, and gone
The skull outlined against thin film
Skin inhumanly grey and wan

Nameless and nonexistent
Blown to oblivion, like sand in the wind
I’m so sick, so sick
So disturbed
Distressed and numb

I turn away, wordless and dumb

Plucked like petals, one by one
They always fall victim before the sun
During the dark, I hear them scream
Terror follows me into my dreams

The neighborhood’s foundation’s left shaken
Things are not looking well
And, who knows, I might be next
Time will expose the truth
Only time will tell…

Darkness in my early life
A shadow’s left to stand
A presence here but forever gone
The shadow that never held my hand

The shadow that never sang to me
The lullabies that let me dream
But illuminated figures remain present
Remain here through and through
From time to time, they’d lean over my crib
And whisper to me, “I love you.”

And I loved them too
She and gram grew to be
Forevermore fillers of the shadow
Fast-forwarded to the present,
The rest is history
Forever looking forward

Never to look back