Undefined
Experimental Free Verse
Luck’s collaboration with Time
strews defining moments
haphazardly
acid rain dissolving
carefully crafted psyches
where there’s disassembly
there’s hope for renewal…
we pray so
everything crossed, cramping
from this unaccustomed contortion
bitter desperation, a yearning
to salvage something, anything
as proof that the past was worth it
fragile flesh though gives the lie,
melts away from grasping hands
keening with loss at the crossroads,
perchance to find consolation in memories,
more likely to leave that wound gaping
a constant dirge burdening the air
incessant pain demands full attention
life seeps out with every heaving breath
unnoticed, mistaken for a sob
’til the world itself seems friable
despair settles, a suffocating fur coat,
slowly head bows in resignation
too much was felt to feel anything again
blankness is the only refuge…
will there ever be light again?
© Indira Reddy 2020
