Life's Mistress

Memory

Fades, As the etching of his face in her heart

Love

Weeps, As they trace a way back to start

Pain

Bleeds, As time slowly drips on the scars

          Reflection

          Stays, As she moves on with her day

          His silence

          Cries, what his words wouldn’t say

          Atonement

          Laughs, As it furthers away         

Reverence

Retreats, As she was severed from her soul                                       

Redemption

Prayed, As yet another day unfolds

Darkness

Crimsoned, As her destiny they told

         Tear of blood from her wounded eyes,

         Rolled the clock to back in time,

         Frail joy in shades of grey

         Reveries of life snatched away

As into ashes smoked her lust

She found her peace in the dust

In the flickering light of her last sight

She thought of all that she had might

         A dream too big she had dared

         Defied his love and life they shared

         His last Goodbye, pitied her in distress

         Oh she had chosen, to be Life’s mistress!