Burns
Ember tongues
Breathing upon
Magnanimous webs
Inside a tattered heart
Pyre fumes
In the hollowed deep
Speak up
A forgotten name
The moonless night’s shriek
Hunting for my soul
All Answers have burned
Questions are blinded
By the soot of lies
Days have died into
Night
I wonder
Who is Stealing dreams from sleep?
As I watch Quietude dance
In the wake of the screams
That died long ago
Within throaty confines
Only cancerous chortle
Is heard
As flames of memories plague
A tired heart.
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